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O'Neill Dares Kerry: 'Sue Me'
NewsMax .com ^
| 8/22/04
| Carl Limbacher
Posted on 08/22/2004 1:04:33 PM PDT by kattracks
Swiftboat Veterans for the Truth spokesman John O'Neill dared Sen. John Kerry on Sunday to sue him for libel if, as Kerry's presidential campaign maintains, key claims in O'Neill's book "Unifit for Command" are not true.
"I invite him to sue me for libel," O'Neill, who co-authored the overnight bestseller with Jerome Corsi, told WABC Radio's Monica Crowley. "If he was actually in Cambodia on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day he should sue me. If, in fact, those other five [Swift]boats, on March the 13, [1969], if they all fled like he did, instead of staying like he knows they did, he should sue me."
O'Neill continued:
"If he didn't wound himself with a grenade - causing sort of a rice-fanny wound - and then reported it to the Navy as a water mine - if he didn't do that on March 13th should sue me."
O'Neill issued the challenge after noting that Kerry's campaign has gone to extraordinary lengths to supress the information in "Unfit for Command."
"On our first [Swiftvet] ad, he had two huge lawfirms send letters to every [TV] station, threatening to sue the stations themselves" if they ran the ad, the former Swiftboat commander told Crowley.
"The next thing he did was challenge the book's publisher, Regnery, indicating he would sue them if they continued printing the book," he added.
The bestselling author said that while Regnery declined to stop printing "Unfit," it offered to republish Kerry's 1971 book "The New Soldier," which chronicles the top Democrat's anti-war protests with a group bankrolled by Jane Fonda.
Kerry has declined to have "New Solidier" republished over the years and reportedly bought up most of the available copies in 1972, after his opponent in a congressional race used it to paint him as anti-American.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: johnoneill; kerry; kerryaboynamedsue; lawsuit; oneillsueme; ricebutt; sosueme; sosuemealready; sueme; suemealready; swiftboatveterans
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To: kattracks
Kerry has declined to have "New Solidier" republished over the years and reportedly bought up most of the available copies in 1972, after his opponent in a congressional race used it to paint him as anti-American. THIS is soooo rich. Bought up the copies of his own book to keep it from the public. Kerry is sooooooo toast!
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posted on
08/22/2004 1:11:51 PM PDT
by
EggsAckley
(........."YO" is "OY" spelled backwards.........)
To: Steel Wolf
Sounds like a fair offer to me! ROFL!
To: kattracks
Not only are John O'Neill and his comrades in arms a great bunch of courageous guys, but O'Neill has a terrific sense of timing and strategy! This is a brilliant challenge. And offering to reprint Winter Soldier...priceless!!
To: Peach; ALOHA RONNIE; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; SAMWolf
O'Neil is putting his life on his line for his country one more time...
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posted on
08/22/2004 1:13:27 PM PDT
by
risk
To: kattracks
O'Neill is terrific. I think I read that his 1971 debate with Kerry will be shown on CSPAN tonight. Is this true and what time, please?
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posted on
08/22/2004 1:13:45 PM PDT
by
tirednvirginia
((But things are looking up!))
To: kattracks
Yeah baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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posted on
08/22/2004 1:14:07 PM PDT
by
soozla
("I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not too sure............"-John Kerry)
To: kattracks
Kerry won't sue O'Neil.
He'd rather just keep demanding Bush tell O'Neil to shut-up.
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posted on
08/22/2004 1:14:12 PM PDT
by
Jorge
To: kattracks
My Favorite post for dims and trolls
who slither in here each day.
And the Lame Stream media
who find the real news on Free Republic,
then rewrite and spin the truth.
Mommy Heinz!
Help!
Look what the Washington Post said on 8/21/04
"Although Kerry campaign officials insist that they have published Kerry's full military records on their Web site (with the exception of medical records shown briefly to reporters earlier this year), they have not permitted independent access to his original Navy records. A Freedom of Information Act request by The Post for Kerry's records produced six pages of information. A spokesman for the Navy Personnel Command, Mike McClellan, said he was not authorized to release the full file, which consists of at least a hundred pages. "
Look! What the Harvard Crimson wrote about me in 1970
Published on Wednesday, February 18, 1970
John Kerry: A Navy Dove Runs for Congress
By SAMUEL Z. GOLDHABER
Crimson Staff Writer
"...One time Kerry was ordered to destroy a Viet Cong village
but disobeyed orders and suggested that the Navy Command
simply send in a Psychological Warfare team to be
friend the villagers with food, hospital supplies,
and better educational facilities."
Now my shipmates on the
USS GRIDLEY CG-21
are attacking me.
Click Here Mommy
and see what
the USS GRIDLEY crew say.
They say I told lies in Tour of Duty
GRIDLEY CREW ARE LIKE
SWIFT BOAT VETS MEANIES!
Mommy : People can get
MY real book here, right now, online FREE!!
I'm so proud of it!
The New Soldier,
By John Kerry
and Vietnam Veterans
Against the War
![](http://611.mystarband.net/images/newsoldier.jpg)
Mommy : Please don't be mad
about my hero Al Hubbard.
Head of Kerry's Vietnam Vets Against the War was Vietnam Vet phony
"Many of the stories were later shown to be fictional. Other so-called Vietnam veterans, such as the executive secretary of VVAW, Al Hubbard, a self-styled poet ("See what you've become, Amerika," ends one of his Vietnam odes),
turned out to have no record of service in Vietnam."
Mommy : Why does McCain
still campaign with Bush?
Mommy : Why doesn't Al Gore defend me?
He is a Vietnam Vet.
Mommy : Did Hillary
"leak" FBI Files on me?
I even used her famous slogan?
"Kerry entered and abandoned Vietnamese village and slaughtered domestic animals
owned by the civilians and burned down their homes with his Zippo lighter."
![](http://611.mystarband.net/images/zippolighter.jpg)
It only takes one idiot to raze a village!
(My original response!)
Mommy : Where is Ted Kennedy?
![](http://611.mystarband.net/images/heinz_kerry_dnc170.jpg)
![](http://611.mystarband.net/images/wabbitt.jpg)
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posted on
08/22/2004 1:14:28 PM PDT
by
68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
(Hanoi Jane and Hanoi Kerry sitting in a tree, sitting in a tree F-R-E-N-C-H-I-N-G)
To: kattracks
I am really enjoying all of these articles about the junior Senator from my State. I have disliked him as my Senator and years ago as Lt. Governor here but nobody would ever listen to me!
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posted on
08/22/2004 1:14:29 PM PDT
by
Radix
(John Kerry is finally not going to do a 180, especially when it comes to releasing his form 180!)
To: kattracks
Is there any chance that a copy of "The New Soldier" can be located, scanned to text, and put online?
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posted on
08/22/2004 1:15:00 PM PDT
by
Grig
To: kattracks
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posted on
08/22/2004 1:15:03 PM PDT
by
woodb01
To: kattracks
Kerry has declined to have "New Solidier" republished over the years and reportedly bought up most of the available copies in 1972, after his opponent in a congressional race used it to paint him as anti-American.Another reason why copyright should be for limited term, instead indefinitely longer than a human lifetime is to prevent the suppression of embarrassing disclosures...
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posted on
08/22/2004 1:16:15 PM PDT
by
no-s
To: sinkspur
Also, under New York Times versus Sullivan, Kerry would have to prove "actual malice," which is very, very tough to prove. O'Neill is smart to issue the challenge--no way in hell Kerry can sue O'Neill.
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posted on
08/22/2004 1:16:25 PM PDT
by
maro
To: kattracks
I'm running out of popcorn, this is awesome!!!!!!!
<|:-)~~
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posted on
08/22/2004 1:16:36 PM PDT
by
JoeSixPack1
(Kerry couldn't have gone to Sears in Cambodia Christmas day! They were closed!)
To: kattracks
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
O'Neil
UNDERSTANDS what "Duty....Honour...Country' means.
If need be it seems that he will '..die with his boots on.'
redrock
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posted on
08/22/2004 1:17:03 PM PDT
by
redrock
("Better a Shack in Heaven....than a Mansion in Hell"---My Grandma)
To: kattracks
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posted on
08/22/2004 1:17:57 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Intellectuals only exist if you think they do!)
To: NicknamedBob
"Kerry was into Fanny Rice? (Or vice versa?)" Well, Gary Hart had DONNA Rice, didn't he?????? ;^)
Sorry, I jes' coun't hep mysef....
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posted on
08/22/2004 1:18:02 PM PDT
by
soozla
("I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not too sure............"-John Kerry)
To: Steel Wolf
Who owns the rights to New Soldier??
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posted on
08/22/2004 1:18:39 PM PDT
by
Dog
(If he had shown up for Intelligence Committee hearings he would notice he wasn't vice chairman.")
To: ncpatriot
No, a court order could also force the records open.
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