I repeat, I have NEVER denigrated any war veteran for political purposes, questioned their service or otherwise, the right has continuallly done so.....smearing kerry's service and decorations, saying cleland blew his own legs off....etc....
I have NEVER done anything like that.....
Anyone wants to show me any posts of mine that prove otherwise....I will be glad to apologize.....
But i can find several posts from reputed vets who have done exactly that on this very thread.....
and they claim Kerry and the winter soldiers are liars......
yet, I've already shown one of the lies o'neill told.....saying if kerry was in cambodia he'd of been disciplined, yet he turns around in an interview with nixon saying he, himself had been their on a swift boat....
these people like the smear liars and john o'neill are political operatives and are LIARS who USE war vets for political gain and smear those who try to stop their lies and unnecessary wars....
Think the torture at abu or the willy pete at falluja was isolated incidents? think me lai was an isolated instance? Think again.
These things happened and continue to because when vets return and speak the truth, they are smeared.....
MR. KERRY:
Now, when we talk about something like war crimes, we're not throwing this term out lightly. The Hague Convention, the Geneva Conventions, history has laid down certain laws of warfare. Hague Convention, I believe, Article Four, states that you are not allowed to bombard uninhabited villages or villages that are not occupied by defendants. We have done that constantly in Vietnam.
MR. O'NEILL: [Unintelligible] John. Can you tell me about any war crimes that occurred in that unit, Coastal Division 11? And a second question: Why didn't you attempt to get out of the unit or submit a request when you were there if you saw anything that shocked a normal man?
MR. KERRY: We - Well, I'll come back to the question.
MR. O'NEILL: I'd like you to answer that question, if you would. You obviously are quite good on the polished rhetoric, but I did serve in the same place you did, and not for four months but for 18 months, and I never saw anything, and I'd like you to tell me about the war crimes you saw committed there, and also why you didn't do something about them, although [unintelligible].
MR. KERRY: Did you serve in a free fire zone?
MR. O'NEILL: I certainly did serve in a free fire zone.
MR. KERRY: [Reading] "Free fire zone, in which we kill anything that moves - man, woman or child. This practice suspends the distinction between combatant and non-combatant and contravenes Geneva Convention Article 3.1."
MR. O'NEILL: Where is that from, John?
MR. KERRY: Geneva Conventions. You've heard about the Geneva Conventions.
read the entire interview if you wish...
from kerry o'neill debate on dick cavett show....