O’Neill dares Kerry to sue him
for libel
NewsMax.com: Swift Boat Veterans for Truth spokesman John
O'Neill dared Sen. John Kerry on Sunday to sue him for libel if, as
Kerry's presidential campaign maintains, key claims in O'Neill's book
"Unfit for Command" are not true.
"I invite him to sue me for libel," O'Neill, who co-authored the
overnight best seller with Jerome Corsi, told WABC Radio's Monica
Crowley.
"If he was actually in Cambodia on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, he
should sue me. If, in fact, those other five [Swift] Boats, on March
the 13, [1969], if they all fled like he did, instead of staying like
he knows they did, he should sue me."
O'Neill continued, "If he didn't wound himself with a grenade, causing
sort of a rice-fanny wound, and then reported it to the Navy as a
water mine - if he didn't do that on March 13, he should sue me."
O'Neill issued the challenge after noting that Kerry's campaign has
gone to extraordinary lengths to suppress the information in "Unfit
for Command."
"On our first [Swiftvet] ad, he had two huge law firms send letters to
every [TV] station, threatening to sue the stations themselves" if
they ran the ad, the former Swift Boat commander told Crowley.
"The next thing he did was challenge the book's publisher, Regnery,
indicating he would sue them if they continued printing the book," he
added.
The best-selling author said that while Regnery declined to stop
printing "Unfit," it offered to republish Kerry's 1971 book, "The New
Soldier," which chronicles the top Democrat's anti-war protests with a
group bankrolled by Jane Fonda.
Kerry has declined to have "The New Soldier" republished over the
years and reportedly bought up most of the available copies in 1972,
after his opponent in a congressional race used it to paint him as
anti-American.
The Beat goes on: Dole calls for Kerry’s
records
Associated Press article in the
WashingtonPost:
Former Republican Sen. Bob Dole suggested Sunday that John Kerry
apologize for past testimony before Congress about alleged atrocities
during the Vietnam War and joined critics of the Democratic
presidential candidate who say he received an early exit from combat
for "superficial wounds."
Dole also called on Kerry to release all the records of his service in
Vietnam.
Other news accounts carry these words by Dole:
"One day he's saying that we were shooting civilians, cutting off
their ears, cutting off their heads, throwing away his medals or his
ribbons," Dole said. "The next day he's standing there, `I want to be
president because I'm a Vietnam veteran.”
"Maybe he should apologize to all the other 2.5 million veterans who
served. He wasn't the only one in Vietnam," said Dole, whose World War
II wounds left him without the use of his right arm.
Dole added: "And here's, you know, a good guy, a good friend. I
respect his record. But three Purple Hearts and never bled that I know
of. I mean, they're all superficial wounds. Three Purple Hearts and
you're out."
"I think Sen. Kerry needs to talk about his Senate record, which is
pretty thin." Dole added. "That's probably why he's talking about his
war record, which is pretty confused."
This is probably not the kind of response John Kerry was anticipating
when he uttered the tired phrase, “Bring it on.” As one Internet
blogger so wonderfully put it: “Repeat after me "John Kerry, Reporting
for Bootey."
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