To: Eva
I noticed he directed the "we should try to keep personalities out of it" to O'Neill when O'Neill was sticking to dry facts.
And HERE Kerry goes and makes a personal dig against O'Neill.
I can't take much more.
Kerry says regarding the term "war crimes" that "we aren't throwing that out lightly".
O'Neill asks him why he didn't report or get out if he saw something?
O'Neill served 18 months, not 4, he points out, and presses to more. Kerry says "IN a free fire zone"? O'Neill says yes and Kerry acts like O'Neill is lying.
Kerry: Yes we did participate in war crimes in free fire zones.
Kerry asks him if he ever saw anything. O'Neill says he was on a raid and Kerry acts again like O'Neill is lying. He says "and you never burned a village?" and O'Neill says "NO" and goes on to describe a village that just wanted to be free.
93 posted on
03/28/2004 4:30:50 PM PST by
cyncooper
("The 'War on Terror ' is not a figure of speech")
To: cyncooper
Kerry tells audience that 'he was told' that he could leave after his third 'Heart and 'deliberated for two weeks' whether he should.
Kerry says that he was released from duty because of his opposition to the war and has been working against the war ever since.
To: cyncooper
I thought O'Neill held his own very well.
I'd forgotten how smugly obnoxious Cavett was.
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