Editorial: Another Vietnam Atrocity (O'Neill and Bush)

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McTavish
Another Vietnam Atrocity
By WILLIAM D. McTAVISH
Aug 17, 2004, 07:49

O’Neill, author of the anti-Kerry screed, Unfit for Duty, is founder and leader of the so-called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a collection of Vietnam vets who serve as little more than a front act for George W. Bush’s campaign to destroy Democratic Presidential candidate John F. Kerry at all costs.
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Ironic. A group of over-the-hill vets on one last mission for their commander in chief, a President who evaded service in Vietnam by pulling strings to get into a cushy Texas Air Guard unit and then, by most accounts, couldn’t even meet the minimum requirements of a weekend warrior.
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Their search and destroy mission includes a television ad where a lineup of vets who served near – but not with – Kerry question his honesty, integrity and bravery plus a book, co-authored by O’Neill and Jerry Corsi, a hate-spouting homophobe who likes to frequent right-wing bulletin boards where he calls Kerry “John Fucking Commie Kerry” and Democrats like Senator Hillary Clinton a “fat hog.”
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Kerry creamed O’Neill on The Dick Cavett show. O’Neill’s friends say he remained bitter about the experience for 33 years until opportunity came knocking when Kerry took the Democratic nomination for President. With the help of Bush backers in his hometown of Houston, O’Neill put together SBVT, which historian Douglas Brinkley, author of the acclaimed Tour of Duty, calls nothing more than a group of “malcontents who have never forgiven Kerry for his actions in speaking out against the war.”

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http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_5049.shtml


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[Cha]

1. Yeah! This is great!

Thanks!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. I have a dream.

I dream that an investigative reporter, someone of the ability of a Robert Parry, is out there right now, doing a full investigative monty on O'Neill and Corsi. I mean soup to nuts, not pausing for the wine cart. Confirmed and attributed statements, forensic accounting and everything. With lawyers if necessary.

The utter fun that would be...

[fsbooks]

4. sure

but it would never make CNN.

[Jack Rabbit]

3. Straightfoward and to the point

This is one of the best pieces on the Swift Boat Veteran for "Truth" I've read yet.

These are right wing misfits unworthy of any serious attention.