Kerry Boatmate: Vietnam Troubles Just Beginning

News Max ^ | 4.26.04

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Reprinted from NewsMax.com

Monday, Apr. 26, 2004 11:01 PM EDT

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.

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[potlatch]

There were many people who were there simultaneously with him who are all about to speak."

This is going to get better and better! Kerry is another Clinton-Gore clone who thinks he can tell any lie and get away with it!

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

"Admiral Boorda committed suicide for far less."

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

LOL I started using this tagline this morning just for Kerry.

[taxesareforever]

Actually, he thought he was on the boat. But in that time period thinking you were on the boat was the same as being on the boat. Matter of fact, if you heard a boat that also could mean you were on the boat. If you saw a boat that could mean that you were in charge of the boat. If the boat was tied up at the pier that also could mean that a fierce fire fight was taking place deep in the jungle. In the year 1971 things only appeared to happen even if people were to think they really happened.
Now we come to 2004 and John Kerry thinks he's running for President but it is only an illusion. He appears to be running for something but that something could be just about anything. But not President.

[oyez]

And she will be far, far more difficult to defeat than Kerry.

Have you heard her shriek through her last couple of speeches? Oh, and that vindictive Hillery care thing.

[smonk]

he was on A boat. he cleverly failed to mention WHICH
boat. this boat happened to be serving margaritas.

[Libertina]

"Kerry was not even on the boat that night."
BIG uh oh! hehehe

[Iberian]

Got your back, right behind you. You are right on the money.

[Iberian]

Yeap, it's called turds.

[dfwgator]

Otherwise, we may blow Kerry up before the convention and Hill*** will be the nominee. And she will be far, far more difficult to defeat than Kerry.

Actually my fear is that it would be Edwards, and he would be tough to beat.

[Travis McGee]

BUMP!

[Iberian]

Your post is right on and funny as a 2 peckered billy goat. :-)

[LdSentinal]

If Kerry drops out (which I doubt), Dean will demand to get the nomination. If he doesn't, he could very well go third-party.

[Balata]

French?

[hobson]

I received a call from a Vietnam Vet organization requesting donations. I asked the guy who he was supporting for President, he said Kerry. I said take me off your calling list.

[oolatec]

Actually, if Hildabeast gets the nomination, Bush will win in an even bigger landslide. Don't worry people... the Democrats have absolutely nobody that they can throw into the fold that could beat President Bush. >:)

[onyx]

"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."




Man.
What nerve.

[Iberian]

There is already a third party. What do you have in mind for him??

[ride the whirlwind]

This better be true...I hope, I hope, I hope!

[smonk]

edwards is a lightweight. did you catch his silliness in
the debates? he would wade into one issue after another,
find himself in a corner, and have to admit "I'm not an
expert on (this example) Islam." Or "I'm not an expert
on military hardware". he said both of those things in
the same debate, but not before he made himself look utterly
foolish. (YEAH, I know. watching the dems debate made me
want to wretch, but somebody had to do it)

and I can't believe that GWB could manage to beat a
millionaire civil attorney.