Oliver North Quotes
I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.
United States, Congress, House, Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran. Testimony of Oliver L. North. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1987.
The admiral, who was the intellectual leader of the junta during the “Dirty War,” confessed to the facts but claimed that the drastic steps were appropriate and necessary. Further, that there was no “guilt” involved in an act of executive necessity. The court did not agree and he was convicted, but was later pardoned along with the other war criminals by President Carlos Menem.
Oliver Laurence North is an American political commentator, television host, military historian, author, and retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel.
