David Horowitz: Swiftvets: Mission Accomplished

NewsMax ^ | 11/16/04 | David Horowitz

[wagglebee]

I've just returned from the annual Restoration Weekend I put on, this year at the Boca Resort in Boca Raton. The highlight of the event was the Saturday night banquet where we gave our Annie Taylor Award to the men who defeated the party of defeatism and the saboteurs of the war on terror in this last election.

Annie Taylor was the first woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive. It is a fitting award for American heroes who were slandered and defamed while they were being tortured in Communist prisons by an American traitor who almost became president, and who were defamed and slandered again by a left-wing American media that have done what they could to undermine America's commander in chief in the middle of the battle and defeat us in the war on terrorism.

The honorees were introduced by my friend Wally Nunn, a helicopter gunner in Vietnam who told me 20 years ago when we first met that even though "anti-war" activists like myself stabbed him and his comrades in the back while they were on the front lines, he bore no grudge because the reason he was in Vietnam was to defend the freedoms that included our right to dissent.

Wally introduced Carleton Sherwood, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who made “Stolen Honor” and who was wounded three times in Vietnam. Sherwood recounted his dismay at the way the left-wing media – the AP, the New York Times, the Washington Post, etc. – ran interference for the traitor and liar Kerry, obscured what he had done and repeated their own criminal assault on the American heroes who died for their freedom in Vietnam.

The next two awards were presented by Col. Jack Jacobs, MSNBC commentator and a Congressional Medal of Honor winner in Vietnam. Jack is five feet four. Unlike Kerry, he didn't write his own citation and so he couldn't fake the record of what he had done. While shot in the head, Jack Jacobs carried 22 wounded soldiers to safety across a fire zone.

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.

The presence of Jack Jacobs was in itself an indictment of the traitor Kerry and the left-wingers in the AP, at the New York Times and the Washington Post who aided and abetted him. For he was one of the hundreds of thousands of Vietnam soldiers who risked and gave their lives for the freedom of us and the Vietnamese and whom Kerry and the left slandered as "war criminals."

Jacobs introduced Jim Warner, who was shot down near the DMZ with his co-pilot, who broke his leg in their fall. Warner was forced by the Communists to carry his comrade 700 miles to the prison in North Vietnam, where the Communists tortured him for five years before he was released.

While Warner was being tortured, John Kerry and his fellow traitors manipulated Warner's mother to testify before Jane Fonda's Winter Soldier Investigation, a collective perjury organized to help the enemy win the war. In “Stolen Honor” there is actual footage, retrieved by Carlton Sherwood, that shows the leftists who staged the Winter Soldier Investigation making up their tales.

The Winter Soldier Investigation was designed to produce the anti-American propaganda that Jim Warner and his fellow POWS braved torture not to give their captors.

Warner told the Restoration Weekend audience that with the defeat of the traitor Kerry at the polls the last mission of the Vietnam War had been completed.

Warner was followed by John O'Neill, the man who pursued Kerry for 30 years, until justice was done. O'Neill pointed out that not a single one of the vets involved in the truth campaign was political in any sense of the word. The extent of their political activities was to try to expose Kerry's lies in 1971 and save the Vietnamese and Cambodians from the mass slaughter that Kerry and Kennedy and Fonda were working so hard to make possible, and then to prevent him from becoming president, a position from which he could facilitate more defeats at the hands of our enemies in the war on terror.

I was riveted to the screen when C-SPAN replayed the O'Neill-Kerry debate of 1971. One moment in particular was seared into my consciousness. It was when the subject of a possible "bloodbath" came up if America left the war as Kerry wanted. Kerry dismissed the idea. Only a few thousand might be killed and those would be Vietnamese guilty of war crimes, he insinuated. John O'Neill knew better. There would be a bloodbath of tens of thousands of innocents, he said (in fact, it turned out to be millions).

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.

[jackbill]

Nat Hentoff, not a conservative, had a great column today in the Washington Times, praising John O'Neill. It's at:

http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20041114-103939-7442r.htm

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 show that John Kerry is — as the title of his book puts it — unfit for command.

[Tribune7]

Wally Nunn is mentioned.

[Tribune7]

Wally Nunn is a former Delaware County Council chairman and is very good guy.

[Chieftain]

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED - PING!

[MEG33]

#10

[ntnychik]

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.

[potlatch]

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!

Thanks for the ping ntnychik!

[BIGLOOK]

I appreciate your correction and whole heartedly appreciate the Marines. I spent two years in VN. Not a medal hound, didn't care much about the issuer. I probably wore a dress uniform about a dozen times in those years.

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

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Please take the time to read this article.

Kerry's latest betrayal

How long till the next attack on the military by Hanoi Kerry?

ABC, AP, CBS, CNN, FOX, MSNBC, NBC, NY Times
will be sure to bring you Hanoi Kerry's latest propaganda.

Then ask your US Senator why Hanoi Kerry is still a US Senator.

Timeline of Hanoi Kerry





I VOW to the 58,000 + Brothers and Sisters on
The Viet Nam Wall who never came home
and to those who died at home from injuries and
from broken hearts.

"I will do everything I LEGALLY can
to expose Hanoi Kerry once and for all.

I will not tire, I will not falter,
and I will not fail.

I solemnly vow to do all I can to restore your honor
until I give my last breath on earth."

I spent 3yrs on a destroyer in the Navy from
'66-'69 as a Gunners Mate, GMG3.
USS CORRY DD 817 '68-'69 Gulf of Tonkin Yacht Club Member.
USS CORRY DD 817
Home port was Norfolk Virginia
and sailed with her in the North Atlantic,
Caribbean,(dealt with Cuban gunboats off of Havana in Jan '68)
thru the Panama Canal, across the Pacific to Viet Nam and back.

I was there the same time Kerry was.
I was there Oct'68-Apr'69 on the destroyer USS Corry DD-817
which sometime supplied PCF's and PBR's
and provided gunfire and gunfire support
in North AND South Viet Nam.

My ship may have even supplied
Kerry's boat in the Mekong Delta

Although there are many similarities between naval gunfire support
and Operation Sea Dragon (which ended Nov '68), they differ in two important areas:
naval gunfire support is normally fired at the request of troops ashore,
while Sea Dragon's mission is the interdiction of supplies and destruction
of military targets; and naval gunfire support is always conducted in South Vietnam,
while Sea Dragon missions are fired only above the demilitarized zone.

29 US Navy ships received gunfire from Viet Cong shore batteries.
My ship DID NOT get hit by the VC.

In Feb '69 my ship was part of Operation Bold Mariner
which was the largest amphibious assault since Korea.

This is EXACTLY what I used to do as a Gunner's Mate 3rd class.
DoughtyOne found this top pic from another ship.
The bottom pic is the ship I served on.



USS CORRY DD 817

[BIGLOOK]

On it, Tonk.

[ConservativeMan55]

A FREEPER NEEDS OUR HELP!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[BIGLOOK]

Kerry has never changed. He has a pathology that Krauthammer should look into seriously and expose.

FREE FIRE ZONE

[Valin]

FYI

John O'Neill to Free Republic -- Thanks for everything...
email | November 15, 2004 | John O'Neill


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

[Intolerant in NJ]

Bump....

[IncPen]

Red Meat Ping

[Taxman]

Gloat/Thank You Swiftees ping!

[Grampa Dave]

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.

[BartMan1]

Nat Hentoff, not a conservative, had a great column today in the Washington Times, praising John O'Neill. It's at: http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20041114-103939-7442r.htm

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.

[AFPhys]

The next two awards were presented by Col. Jack Jacobs, MSNBC commentator and a Congressional Medal of Honor winner in Vietnam. Jack is five feet four. Unlike Kerry, he didn't write his own citation and so he couldn't fake the record of what he had done. While shot in the head, Jack Jacobs carried 22 wounded soldiers to safety across a fire zone.

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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