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2004-08-25 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by tipper 2004-08-25 06:07|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I saw the author of 'Unfit for Command' John o'Neill on Hannity& Combs last night. Pretty impressive figure for someone as unassumming and low key as this fella was. Very calm, very deliberate, unexcitable man; you would think you were watching a CPA give a report on assets disposal under new proposed federal law, etc, instead of someone trying to reclaim the honor of combat vets in Viet Nam.

Combs tried to trip the man up, but Mr. O'Neill bored in on his Combs' questions, changed nothing about his own answer. Consistent and unflappable. It is no wonder Kerry and his Kerryettes are so afraid of O'Neill and his book. Reason, logic, honor and above all grace is what is driving this SwiftBats Vets thing. Not political ambitions. Just the truth.

Posted by badanov 2004-08-25 9:54:21 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-08-25 9:54:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 O'Neill's good. Unflappable is definitely the right term. He speaks like a man who has the truth on his side. And moreover, this fight is personal. They felt monumentally screwed over by Kerry back in '71 and now... payback is a bitch.

Even if Bush condemned them (he won't... he can't, legally) I don't think he'd stop.

Posted by eLarson 2004-08-25 7:08:26 PM|| [http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2004-08-25 7:08:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 The real source of this situation lies in the fact that, apart from the presenter and recipient, almost no one knows much about the verbiage behind citations and what's in the official records.

Why has the record not been challenged before?

Simple: He didn't parade it in front of people who were there, knew what kind of climber and ambitious schemer he was, and cared about the truth.

Now that he has, we have people who know better (i.e. who know what really happened) hearing the official record details for the first time and saying WTF? That's not true. That's not how it happened. Hold on there, fella, that's a load of bullshit!

Open the records and debate your peers (betters, IMO), Skeery, or STFU. Q.E.D.

Posted by .com 2004-08-25 7:15:03 PM|| 2004-08-25 7:15:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 .com, as far as I remember an award submission package included another form called a summary/justification that had the actual plot summary of what happened. That extra form might have been added later or not become an offical part of the awardee's record but it would have been that part of the package that the staff of the principals in the chain of command would have looked to for determining the appropriateness of the award. The citation, itself, would been word-smithed by frustrated novelists all the way up the chain - a possible reason why the citation was altered each time it was rewritten and resigned. (I still don't get why one of his medals was reissued several times. I get the feeling that the medals were withdrawn by the original awarders.)

Posted by Super Hose 2004-08-25 8:59:55 PM|| 2004-08-25 8:59:55 PM|| Front Page Top

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