Posted on 08/19/2004 12:07:26 PM PDT by pookie18
John O'Neill Will Be On Hannity's Radio Show Todat To Discuss Kerry's Comments
See...that is how real special ops guys act. Your son is a real hero, but he will never talk about it.
I have met a Navy SEAL who parachuted into Haiphong harbor to mine it. He NEVER talks about it. A mutual friend told me. He is very laid back. Very cool under pressure.
Thank you and your son for your service.
Al Gore's daddy was a Senator and he was given a cushy job as a reporter behind the lines. I have never liked Gore but I wouldn't beat up on him then over that because if a son of higher-up government official was taken hostage it would be disasterous.
these slime ball libs have our troops in harms way and our athletes....... in Greece.
I think the left is self-imploding
Sorry, that won't cut it. A lot of famous people's sons went to Vietnam. John McCain's dad was head of the Pacific forces at the time of John's capture.
LOL.Kerry should be so blessed.
Hannity: "Kerry threw his medals...no. someone else's medals... no, they are interchangable... no, I never threw them away...I gave back everything... but he LIED and when confronted by Charlie Gibson, he screeches 'conspiracy'"...
Kerry brags about his service....fine.
But did his service help the United States or hurt it?
Didn't his service actually defeat the United States?
WE DON'T NEED THAT TYPE OF SERVICE!
Gibson nailed Kerry on his lies and Kerry exploded... he can't take a punch... he just whines about how unfair the Repubs are... no issues are addressed...
Forget Kerry's surrogates, I want Kerry HIMSELF to appear tonight with O'Neil. If the SBV's are wrong, tell America the Truth. If you are too afraid to respond, I'm going to (rightly) assume the Truth isn't on your side.
Senator KERRY, SIGN THE 180! Accept O'Neil's request decades ago to continue your debate! Stop trying to deflect the issue of your service towards G.W. that has no role in this event.
I'm glad Sean noted Kerry is again bashing the 'Nam vets.
Go SEAN GO............. It is war time with the LEFT.. and we are loaded and ready to bomb them from all sides.
Maybe Torricelli could step in
Where is O'Neil, has Hanity finished with him.
O'Neil has been held over to the next hour... something seems to be going on... Hannity is basically filling time now...
W would have been considered a high security risk with his father at the helm of the CIA. Not sure that would have prevented his going there, but it would certainly have been a strong consideration.
Please explain how the Wash Post allegations have been repudiated. I did see the O'Dell rebuttal. Other stuff?
I think Hannity knows more than he is saying. Just a hunch.
I dug out my mini recorder. Hannity's on tape delay in my area, I'm listening over the net. I'm going to tape O'Neil's segment which starts in about 10 minutes from now on my local station. I can replay it for anyone caring to listen afterward.
Something is definitely up, and Hannity's tone suggests that it is very bad for Kerry.
Statement By Swift Boat Veterans for Truth Member Larry Thurlow
http://www.swiftvets.com/article.php?story=20040819100856500
I am convinced that the language used in my citation for a Bronze Star was language taken directly from John Kerry's report which falsely described the action on the Bay Hap River as action that saw small arms fire and automatic weapons fire from both banks of the river.
To this day, I can say without a doubt in my mind, along with other accounts from my shipmates -- there was no hostile enemy fire directed at my boat or at any of the five boats operating on the river that day.
I submitted no paperwork for a medal nor did I file an after action report describing the incident. To my knowledge, John Kerry was the only officer who filed a report describing his version of the incidents that occurred on the river that day.
It was not until I had left the Navy -- approximately three months after I left the service -- that I was notified that I was to receive a citation for my actions on that day.
I believed then as I believe now that I received my Bronze Star for my efforts to rescue the injured crewmen from swift boat number three and to conduct damage control to prevent that boat from sinking. My boat and several other swift boats went to the aid of our fellow swift boat sailors whose craft was adrift and taking on water. We provided immediate rescue and damage control to prevent boat three from sinking and to offer immediate protection and comfort to the injured crew.
After the mine exploded, leaving swift boat three dead in the water, John Kerry's boat, which was on the opposite side of the river, fled the scene. US Army Special Forces officer Jim Rassmann, who was on Kerry's boat at the time, fell off the boat and into the water. Kerry's boat returned several minutes later -- under no hail of enemy gunfire -- to retrieve Rassmann from the river only seconds before another boat was going to pick him up.
Kerry campaign spokespersons have conflicting accounts of this incident -- the latest one being that Kerry's boat did leave but only briefly and returned under withering enemy fire to rescue Mr. Rassmann. However, none of the other boats on the river that day reported enemy fire nor was anyone wounded by small arms action. The only damage on that day was done to boat three -- a result of the underwater mine. None of the other swift boats received damage from enemy gunfire.
And in a new development, Kerry campaign officials are now finally acknowledging that while Kerry's boat left the scene, none of the other boats on the river ever left the damaged swift boat. This is a direct contradiction to previous accounts made by Jim Rassmann in the Oregonian newspaper and a direct contradiction to the "No Man Left Behind" theme during the Democratic National Convention.
These ever changing accounts of the Bay Hap River incident by Kerry campaign officials leave me asking one question. If no one ever left the scene of the Bay Hap River incident, how could anyone be left behind?
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