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I don't agree with O'Reilly all the time, and I too think his criticisms of the Swiftees was misguided, but IMHO more his lack of understanding on military issues and the Swiftees not putting their into language the common (non-military) man can understand: namely that Swift boats are like tanks or squads, and that each can often see what's going on on the other boat. So when Kerry made a lot of his heroic claims, yeah, not all the Swiftees were on Kerry's boat, but they were nearby and could see what was going on and all meet up later to exchange accounts of what happened. So their claims to be witnesses to what really happened are valid. I think they needed to explain that more to people, maybe with graphics to show how close Swift boats could be to each other.

But on the whole, IMHO, Bill generally champions Conservative (he likes to call them "traditionalist") issues, and I'm not going to hold his lack of military experience/knowledge against him forever and dismiss everything he says from now on.

On another note, Bill is often critical of what's going on in Iraq, and has many military "experts" on his show to back his point up. But I have yet to see a single soldier back from Iraq to tell Bill that what the MSM parrots in the US is not reflective of what's happening on the ground. That's one thing I will credit Chris Matthews for, his one show several months back when he had 4 Army officers on for the whole hour to dicuss their experiences in Iraq and thoughts on the war. Matthews was unable to spin anything and could nothing more than (begrudgingly) agree and thank them for their service. Bill should wise up and do the same on his show someday - he'd change his tune.

Again, I don't always agree with him, but for the most part he's on "our" side. IMHO.