Plus O'Neill was not and is not (Lord, don't ask me why, he seems so sensible otherwise) a Republican.
He's on the Nixon tapes (he did not know he was being recorded) telling Nixon he was a democrat!
actually he is exactly the kind of DemoncRAT I respect. He is the ultimate in patriotic, a true hero and a man of his own conviction. He voted for Perot and is not a Michael Moore-on or demagouge. There are plenty of wise, fair & decent DemoncRATs, Zell Miller comes to mind and others.
O'Neil is no two huckster. He is head of his own very influential and prosperous law firm in Houston. He took on Kerry 30 years ago (Dick Cavette show) and has gone on w/his life whereas Kerry is stuck in a time warp. O'Neil's motive now, he says, is that he and the other vets chose to speak out because Kerry is running as president and CIC, and they KNOW from their own first hand observations then and now that Kerry is UNFIT to be leader of the world's greates nation. O"Neil is once again defending this country. I treasure him and his compatriots for once again going into the fray.