Posted on 11/15/2004 5:44:30 PM PST by wagglebee
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20041114-103939-7442r.htm
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During the most mean-spirited verbal gunfire of any presidential campaign I remember, I have most respected the steady, measured refusal of swift boat veteran John O'Neill to let his fierce, robot-like attackers deter him from his successful determinationto show that John Kerry is as the title of his book puts it unfit for command.
Wally Nunn is mentioned.
Wally Nunn is a former Delaware County Council chairman and is very good guy.
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My thanks and admiration to John O'Neill. He remained dignified and stuck to the facts amid some of the worst treatment I've ever seen of a "guest" on television. Swifties, please stay involved until the history books get it right.
We are all proud of the job O'Neill did, speaking on each show he was on. He was composed, decent and knew the facts, no one could rattle him!
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The question is, how did Kerry receive four campaign stars in four months in country service? And why were they noted on his 2001 DD 215? I'd like to see his original DD 214 and I think lots of others would too.
Please convey a belated Happy Marine Corps Birthday to your husband from a Navy spook. Danang '69-'71
On it, Tonk.
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Posted on 11/15/2004 2:02:56 PM CST by Interesting Times
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1280569/posts
To The Citizens Of Free Republic:
We will never ever forget your support and help. Your threads not only encouraged us but kept the truth alive in a period when Big Media sought to suppress the story. Your e-mails and phone calls to Big Media at least shamed them. The thousands of contributions we got from you helped us to organize our website, produce our earliest ads, and keep the light flickering in the darkest of times. The English at Agincourt would have executed Kerry for meeting with the enemy and betraying them. In contrast, we found a true band of brothers who stood with us and supported us. Thank you. We will never forget it.
John O'Neill
November 15, 2004
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How did O'Neill know this? Because he knew that the Communists were Communists, and their deeds at Hue and elsewhere showed exactly what they would do. In contrast, Kerry portrayed them as Vietnamese patriots, exactly the way Michael Moore portrays the Zarqawi terrorists in Iraq today.
These are the voices of treason. If listened to, they will get many more tens of thousands both Iraqis and Americans killed. This is the treacherous voice that the so-called liberals in Hollywood and in the press have done everything they could to support and abet.
These are dangerous and immoral times. The Swift Boat vets have gone to battle for us once again, and have prevailed. But at great personal cost. John O'Neill is a lawyer. One the members of my board of directors who was present at the Weekend told me how he first heard of John O'Neill when one of the companies on whose boards he sits (he is an investor) was looking for a corporate lawyer in Houston to represent them. John O'Neill was recommended as the most honest straight shooter in Houston, someone with an impeccable reputation for integrity.
By leaving the private sector and entering the political arena for the first time in 30 years to challenge a traitor and a liar in this last mission of the Vietnam War, John O'Neill has had to brave a free-fire zone of slander and libel such as few have had to endure. He has been defamed and abused by every major media institution (with the exception of Fox) in this country.
Michael Parks, former editor of the L.A. Times and now the dean of the Journalism School at UCLA a man of the left whom I used to respect and who reported from Moscow during the height of the Cold War wrote a character assassination posing as a review for the L.A. Times about John's book that was worthy of Pravda in the days of Stalin.
I worry for my country when a Michael Parks can descend this low. But my confidence is instantly restored when I consider the moral courage of men like John O'Neill.
It starts: During the most mean-spirited verbal gunfire of any presidential campaign I remember, I have most respected the steady, measured refusal of swift boat veteran John O'Neill to let his fierce, robot-like attackers deter him from his successful determinationto to show that John Kerry is as the title of his book puts it unfit for command.
I read it.
What is underappreciated is that Nat Henthoff is a dyed in the wool liberal -- though in my estimate, one of the few remaining honest libs; Christopher Hitchens being the only other that comes to mind.
For Mr Henthoff to unload on John Kerry as he did by praising John O'Neil tells me there is a subfraction of the libs out there who understand what a truly weak man and candidate was John Kerry.
Every life he saved was that of a Vietnamese. Jack was the leader of a platoon of South Vietnamese soldiers fighting to protect themselves and their families from the horrors that followed the Communist victory that Kerry and his patron Ted Kennedy and Jane Fonda and other leftists worked so hard to accomplish.
These paragraphs demonstrate just how far the sKerry facilitators sunk in their efforts to defame our VietNam vets, and more recently, the SwiftVets, and President Bush.
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