Posted on 04/26/2004 9:38:41 PM PDT by hope
Kerry Boatmate: Vietnam Troubles Just Beginning Sen. John Kerry's Monday morning meltdown on "Good Morning America" may be just the beginning of his troubles, according to one of his Vietnam boatmates, who is warning that more of the men who served alongside the Massachusetts Democrat are preparing to go public with their accounts. Texas lawyer John O'Neill, who served on Kerry's swiftboat after he left Vietnam just four months into his tour, told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg on Sunday, "I was in exactly the same unit. There were many people who were there simultaneously with him who are all about to speak." O'Neill gained brief fame in 1971 when he debated Kerry on the "Dick Cavett Show" and forced him to admit he never personally witnessed the war crimes he'd been accusing U.S. troops of committing. Though he's been contacted by Kerry's opponents every time the Massachusetts Democrat has run for office in the 33-years since - O'Neill has refused to speak out. Until now. Referring to reports this week in the Boston Globe questioning whether Kerry may have exaggerated his combat record, O'Neill told Malzberg, "This is just the first opening. They'll be many different people. But I'd prefer to let the people who were actually there speak directly." O'Neill cited a Jan. 29, 1969 firefight that Kerry claims on his campaign web site that he and his boatmates were in. "But according to the Boston Globe," said the swiftboat veteran, "Kerry was not even on the boat that night. The guy that was really on the boat was a fellow officer of ours named Ted Peck. He remembers well that fight because he was terribly wounded in three places." "There was no Kerry anywhere around," O'Neill said. "And yet it appears on his web site as some pitched battle that Kerry was involved in." Noting that the Democratic presidential candidate has made his Vietnam war experience the centerpiece of every campaign for office, O'Neill complained: "It's [Kerry's] self promotion that infuriates most of the people from his unit who actually know what he did." "He would be a terrible Commander-in-Chief of U.S. forces in the world at a time of crisis," the Kerry boatmate warned. Get Steve Malzberg's exclusive NewsMax.com column emailed directly to you at www.newsmax.com/malzberg. Editor's note:
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Monday, Apr. 26, 2004 11:01 PM EDT
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A WATHINGTON D-THEE HAIRDRETH-THER!!!Clutch the pearlth, what a dirty trick to pull.
Well, that jutht cotht him a few thouthand vote-th in Than Franthithco and Weth-t LA...
True enough. That's NewsMax, though, not O'Neill.
hehe ! ;^)
Maybe tomorrow I can spend a little time and fix that one up a little bit .....
There you go ! I made the changes and updated the URL. See the pic in #106 now ...
But where's Ta-Ray-Sa? (I don't trust the F'n Man in the same graveyard with Joan Staley...)
hehe ! Yeah, I thought about putting TeRAYza's face over that ladies face. Might add that today.I got that hair from another Kerry pic. Must have been before he started paying $1,000 for haircuts, haha !
I had to flip the pic before adding it in. (He parts his hair on the other side).
It's a money laundry where everything comes out pink!
I must support her on that one. She has more of a right to call herself African-American than all the coloreds negroes blacks African-Americans who have only seen Africa in a movie.
Kerry won't mind. He's no stranger to flips. Or flops. :-)
Maybe we could start our own "makeover" show called "conservative eye for the commie guy."
hahaha ! I should have figured Mr. Flip-flop Commie Guy wouldn't care. ;^)
Since before Wesley Clark showed up, I have feared that the Clinton's were looking for a hung convention so the witch could step forward to save the party.
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