North

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I recently visited a page on Snopes about Lt. Col. Oliver North and Osama bin Laden to correct a friend who had forwarded the bogus story to a local mailing list.

What I didn't notice the last time I visited the page was an attached and very real letter from the desk of North himself, penned only a few months ago as a response and rebuttal to the rumor.

Wow. Always strange when a voice from another era bubbles up unexpectedly, and talks about now-things.

Reminds me of something I heard on NPR last October... an address President Clinton had made about 9-11, and how it reflected on this country's foreign policy. To enhance the creepy feeling that the listener had briefly slipped into an alternate universe, they played surreal music by Tortoise behind his voice for the ten minutes or so that they aired of it. I found it fascinating.