Commie symp, for sure. Commie collaborator.
I just watched my tape of the show again. I did not understand why Koppel was being so willingly obtuse in his efforts to get O'Neill to admit something so patently inconsistent with Kerry's own testimony to the event (as cited by O'Neill.)
When I listened closely to the report of the second Vietnamese woman amd man, I heard the translator say that huts were burned, pigs were killed and three rice farms were destroyed, by South Vietnamese under direction of the Americans.. This sounds eerily similar to Kerry's Senate testimony, which lately has been used in the Swift vets ads.
O'Neill asked Koppel why he was addressing this one issue for the third time, instead of investigating some of the other actions of Kerry.
Maybe it was to introduce the idea of Kerry's words being truthful in his 1971 charges of war crimes.
^^^^^^
Nightline showed an image of the after action report in question. Doesn't that have the name of the person making the report on it? I am sure it must, and it must say Lt (jg) Kerry!
I'm REALLY going to believe a communist, rather than the MULTIPLE American Officers and men that witnessed Kerry's non-heroic "deeds"...
With the exception of a few men on his own boat -- the overwhelming majority of his peer officers, paint Kerry as a self promoting, dangerous, reckless, outlaw and liar.... That's good enough for me..
And -- I'm not in the habit of believing sailors! ;-)
Semper Fi