Col. Oliver North: Obama's Policies "Unconscionable" — Transcript

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1. 0:04since the september 11th attacks
2. 0:06thousands of heroic americans have
3. 0:07dedicated their lives to preventing the
4. 0:09next terrorist strike now in a stirring
5. 0:12account best-selling author and host of
6. 0:13war stories on fox lieutenant colonel
7. 0:16oliver north is telling their stories in
8. 0:18his new book american heroes in the
9. 0:20fight against radical islam colonel
10. 0:22north welcome to newsmax thank you
11. 0:24kathleen great to be with you you've
12. 0:26written quite a few books why this one
13. 0:29well first of all my boss told me to
14. 0:31write it so since i worked for roger
15. 0:32ailes at fox news channel and he told me
16. 0:35i want a book about these young
17. 0:36americans that i'm privileged to be able
18. 0:38to cover i said aye aye sir like a good
19. 0:40marine
20. 0:42it was also a work of love because uh
21. 0:45it's it's my great blessing to be able
22. 0:47to keep company with heroes and that's
23. 0:49all i do my only beat for fox news or
24. 0:52soldiers sailors airmen guardsmen and
25. 0:54marines so
26. 0:56i get to keep company with heroes guys
27. 0:58that wear flak jackets and helmets and
28. 0:59flight suits to work why is
29. 1:01documentation of these stories in your
30. 1:03book and on your program on fox why are
31. 1:05they so important well because it's part
32. 1:08of what we are as a people i mean the
33. 1:09commitment that's been made by this
34. 1:11nation to offer others the hope of
35. 1:12freedom is a very important part of who
36. 1:15we are
37. 1:16and the historical record of what they
38. 1:18do and how they do it and the remarkable
39. 1:21sacrifices they've made is important to
40. 1:23the future it's also important to them i
41. 1:26tell young americans that if you know
42. 1:28someone who's serving they really ought
43. 1:30to have a copy of this book so that
44. 1:3210 15 years from now when one of their
45. 1:35youngsters comes up and says
46. 1:37you know mom or dad what did you do in
47. 1:39this war
48. 1:40there is the first draft of the history
49. 1:42of this war and it begins on 9 11 0-1
50. 1:46these are all the volunteers of 9 11.
51. 1:49they came because they knew they were
52. 1:51going to go to a war and they believed
53. 1:52what they were doing was important
54. 1:54and unfortunately as you know most of
55. 1:57our colleagues in the business do not
56. 1:59report the good news
57. 2:01they don't report the remarkable
58. 2:02sacrifices that they're making there's a
59. 2:04lot of criticism both politically and in
60. 2:06the media and it is a part of the great
61. 2:09legacy of this country you tell a lot of
62. 2:11inspiring stories in the book one of the
63. 2:13accounts in your book is that of a
64. 2:15member of the cia's ultra secret special
65. 2:17activities division mike spann who with
66. 2:20american forces supported the northern
67. 2:22alliance troops in operation enduring
68. 2:24freedom talk to us about him who who was
69. 2:26he and what is it that he did that was
70. 2:28so heroic mike spann was first of all
71. 2:31u.s marine he then left the marine corps
72. 2:34and went to the agency
73. 2:35he was a special activities division
74. 2:37officer
75. 2:38and became the first american casualty
76. 2:40the first american killed
77. 2:42in this war against radical islam he was
78. 2:44interrogating
79. 2:46detainees at mazzari sharif when a
80. 2:49rebellion occurred
81. 2:51the northern alliance troops that were
82. 2:53there with him and a handful of u.s
83. 2:54special forces were not enough to
84. 2:57contain it they murdered him in the
85. 2:59process
86. 3:00mike spann was one of those young
87. 3:02americans who committed himself to the
88. 3:04freedom of this country the the future
89. 3:06of this country
90. 3:07you were assigned to the national
91. 3:09security council staff under the reagan
92. 3:10administration and was this country's
93. 3:12counter-terrorism coordinator what
94. 3:14concerns you the most about the
95. 3:16direction this country is going in with
96. 3:18regard to its national security and
97. 3:20foreign policy
98. 3:22well you know first of all full
99. 3:23disclosure you know we missed the
100. 3:25explosion of radical islam that began
101. 3:27and
102. 3:28basically when the ayatollah khomeini
103. 3:30returned to iran from paris
104. 3:331979.
105. 3:34we could enumerate you know on a view
106. 3:37graph the wire diagrams of all the
107. 3:40terrorist organizations in the world
108. 3:42but we didn't see the explosion of
109. 3:44radical islam and of course we witnessed
110. 3:46that live in many cases on television on
111. 3:499 1101 it had actually begun well before
112. 3:52that
113. 3:53the declaration of war that was made by
114. 3:55osama bin laden against the united
115. 3:57states as early as 1993 was missed by
116. 4:00the clinton administration
117. 4:02and the bush administration set out to
118. 4:04basically
119. 4:06stop this movement in its tracks
120. 4:08initially in afghanistan and
121. 4:09subsequently in iraq and of course in
122. 4:12other places around the world that we've
123. 4:13been to with these young americans like
124. 4:15the southern philippines
125. 4:17we now see that that that movement
126. 4:20has been severely disrupted certainly in
127. 4:22afghanistan and iraq but it still has
128. 4:25legs as they say colonel north when you
129. 4:27see our men and women in uniform
130. 4:29sacrificing so much and many paying the
131. 4:31ultimate price um and you have president
132. 4:33obama on the other hand apologizing for
133. 4:35our response to september 11th what goes
134. 4:38through your mind i think it's
135. 4:39unconscionable
136. 4:40i mean
137. 4:41if you look at this country and what we
138. 4:43have done
139. 4:44to offer others the hope of freedom
140. 4:46america has never been a colonial power
141. 4:48we've never occupied another country
142. 4:50intending to keep it for gold or oil or
143. 4:53colonial conquest
144. 4:54this is a nation of very good people
145. 4:57particularly those who serve in uniform
146. 4:59and my hope is that this president will
147. 5:01eventually come to recognize that first
148. 5:04of all they've all but won in iraq and
149. 5:07that what needs to be done isn't to go
150. 5:09around america around the world
151. 5:11apologizing for america but reasserting
152. 5:14the innate goodness of this country
153. 5:16which is exhibited day in and day out
154. 5:19the judeo-christian values of the young
155. 5:22americans who in one second can be
156. 5:24engaged in a deadly firefight and just
157. 5:26minutes later be giving a hungry iraqi
158. 5:29or afghan kid his last ration
159. 5:32or helping an iraqi woman or an afghan
160. 5:35woman
161. 5:37in demonstrating that americans have
162. 5:39become the protectors of muslim women
163. 5:41that's after all ultimately how we're
164. 5:43going to win
165. 5:44and my hope is that this administration
166. 5:46comes to recognize that their sacrifice
167. 5:49is what's made us a safer country
168. 5:51there's been a big debate about the
169. 5:53release of terror detainee photos do you
170. 5:55think releasing those photos puts our
171. 5:57troops at risk
172. 5:59it certainly would
173. 6:00i was in the joff when
174. 6:03newsweek published a totally fictional
175. 6:06article about a quran being flushed down
176. 6:08a toilet that story is in this book
177. 6:11and to see the riots that occurred in
178. 6:13the aftermath of that
179. 6:14to see what's happened in the aftermath
180. 6:16of the photographs
181. 6:18released from abu ghraib initially to
182. 6:21see the kinds of hatred that that can
183. 6:23foment in the minds of
184. 6:25radical islamics tells you that
185. 6:27americans would be increasingly at risk
186. 6:31house democrats are pushing for an
187. 6:33increase in the number of lawmakers who
188. 6:34hear secret intelligence operations
189. 6:36briefings what do you um what do you
190. 6:38think about that
191. 6:40the the problem with making it a broader
192. 6:42circle on capitol hill
193. 6:44is that the kinds of intelligence that
194. 6:46we're collecting whether it's through
195. 6:48interrogations or other means
196. 6:51if they are revealed to the enemy they
197. 6:53will adapt
198. 6:55their process their procedures their
199. 6:57tactics even their strategy to
200. 6:59compensate for it
201. 7:01broadening the circle of people on
202. 7:02capitol hill isn't going to make us
203. 7:05safer it isn't going to give more
204. 7:07information than they were already
205. 7:08getting
206. 7:09what it will do is make it available to
207. 7:11people who otherwise might not have
208. 7:13national security of the united states
209. 7:15at stake and see the opportunity to do
210. 7:17political gla grandstanding just like
211. 7:19nancy pelosi did
212. 7:21what are your thoughts on pelosi's
213. 7:22grandstanding and and her
214. 7:25words for the cia
215. 7:27well look at the the morale of the
216. 7:29central intelligence agency just like
217. 7:31the morale of our military when it's
218. 7:33being criticized
219. 7:34by the new york times or by any one of
220. 7:36the major periodicals or by the networks
221. 7:39and we've seen it all happen in the
222. 7:40course of this war much of it documented
223. 7:42in this book that adversely affects the
224. 7:45morale of everybody involved and what
225. 7:47this administration has got to do
226. 7:50is understand that there are secrets
227. 7:52that cannot be revealed nancy pelosi
228. 7:55ought to get
229. 7:56i i well nancy pelosi to take the
230. 7:59opportunity to correct the record and
231. 8:01reveal that she really was briefed and
232. 8:03that perhaps she forgot about it i
233. 8:05understand you are an scre instructor so
234. 8:08you've waterboarded people and have been
235. 8:09waterboarded yourself did you feel it
236. 8:11was torture
237. 8:12well every survival escape resistance
238. 8:14invasion course student which i once was
239. 8:18was subject to these same kinds of
240. 8:20interrogation techniques as a means of
241. 8:22preparing us for the kinds of things
242. 8:24that we could face if we were captured
243. 8:27each seer instructor is given that same
244. 8:29kind of training now the reality is of
245. 8:31it no one ever thought of as torture
246. 8:34certainly it's uncomfortable but torture
247. 8:36is the kind of thing that leaves
248. 8:38permanent disfigurement it causes
249. 8:40horrible pain it causes the kinds of
250. 8:42things that that you know you look back
251. 8:44at medieval torture chambers that's
252. 8:47torture
253. 8:48what john mccain and others were
254. 8:50subjected to in the hanoi hilton and in
255. 8:52other prisons of vietnam that was
256. 8:55torture that was brutality that's not
257. 8:57what americans were doing it was never
258. 9:00torture before this administration
259. 9:02decided it to be so do you feel that we
260. 9:04as a nation have forgotten the lessons
261. 9:06of september 11th
262. 9:08oh my goodness yes i mean look what's
263. 9:10look what's transpired we we're now
264. 9:13looking at closing down the kinds of
265. 9:15collection of information on foreign
266. 9:18transactions shutting down the
267. 9:20communications that or the interceptive
268. 9:22communications that goes on between
269. 9:25americans and and other places around
270. 9:27the world
271. 9:28when you start saying that the privacy
272. 9:30of those international phone calls or
273. 9:32communications on the internet
274. 9:34through email and the like are off
275. 9:36limits you're automatically subjecting
276. 9:39yourself to increased vulnerability my
277. 9:41hope is that we're not going to stop the
278. 9:43government the
279. 9:44national security agency and others from
280. 9:47collecting that information because
281. 9:49otherwise we're going to have another
282. 9:51911 and it could be worse
283. 9:53colonel for anyone who wants to be an
284. 9:55american hero maybe they can join the
285. 9:57military maybe they can't what advice
286. 9:59would you give them
287. 10:00well as i say a hero is not the person
288. 10:03that catches a pass in the end zone not
289. 10:05the person that gets eight gold medals
290. 10:07at the olympics
291. 10:08a hero is a person who willingly puts
292. 10:11themself at risk for the benefit of
293. 10:13others and so the family members that
294. 10:15are in this book
295. 10:17the loved ones that they leave behind
296. 10:19they're heroes as well because they're
297. 10:20making an enormous sacrifice to the
298. 10:22benefit of this country
299. 10:24and a hero is a person who is serving
300. 10:26this country every one of those soldiers
301. 10:29sailors airmen guardsmen and marines who
302. 10:31are serving today are heroes because of
303. 10:34the sacrifices that they've made for
304. 10:35this country
305. 10:37and they can call themselves as such
306. 10:39they can pull this book off a shelf set
307. 10:41in front of their grandchildren 30 years
308. 10:43from now and say that's what i did for
309. 10:45this country
310. 10:47all right colonel oliver north author of
311. 10:49american heroes in the fight against
312. 10:50radical islam thank you so much for
313. 10:52joining us my pleasure kaiflyn and thank
314. 10:54you for watching newsmax tv
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