Houston lawyer still opposes Kerry
Houston Chronical:
"Houston lawyer John O'Neill is talking publicly about the Vietnam War again, and his words connect to this year's presidential contest.
"In 1971, the Vietnam vetern angrily confronted a fellow veteran, John Kerry, on a nationally televised debate on the Dick Cavett Show. Kerry criticized the war both had fought in; O'Neill criticized Kerry's anti-war stance.
"Kerry's anti-war activities more than three decades ago still rile O'Neill, so much so that he has again begun speaking out against the decorated veteran and Democratic presidential candidate. O'Neill claims Kerry is unqualified to be commander in chief.
" 'I'm willing to give him some credit for the fact that he was actually there even for a short period,' O'Neill said about Kerry in a Chronicle interview today. 'But this was like a baseball player that appears in a game and pulls himself out in the third inning and now wants to be baseball commissioner after claiming baseball is a crime and people shouldn't play it.'
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" 'I'm involved in this deal because the allegations he made about war crimes are on the fringe of American life. They always were and they are now,' O'Neill told the Houston Chronicle as he embarked on series of media interviews.
"He and a number of other veterans have taken aim not only at Kerry's post war activities but his military duty, for which he received Bronze and Silver medals as well as three Purple Hearts.
"They have suggested that Kerry did not deserve at least one of the Purple Hearts, claiming he exaggerated his shrapnel wounds. And O'Neill is livid that Kerry promotes his military service in campaign commercials even though he asked to leave Vietnam early because of he had accumulated enough Purple Hearts to get an early exit.
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"And he is clearly contemptuous of Kerry's constant reference to his military service on the campaign trail.
" 'He appears in a flight jacket, which by the way we never wore in Vietnam because the temperature was 90 plus degrees,' he said."
Houston Chronical:
"Houston lawyer John O'Neill is talking publicly about the Vietnam War again, and his words connect to this year's presidential contest.
"In 1971, the Vietnam vetern angrily confronted a fellow veteran, John Kerry, on a nationally televised debate on the Dick Cavett Show. Kerry criticized the war both had fought in; O'Neill criticized Kerry's anti-war stance.
"Kerry's anti-war activities more than three decades ago still rile O'Neill, so much so that he has again begun speaking out against the decorated veteran and Democratic presidential candidate. O'Neill claims Kerry is unqualified to be commander in chief.
" 'I'm willing to give him some credit for the fact that he was actually there even for a short period,' O'Neill said about Kerry in a Chronicle interview today. 'But this was like a baseball player that appears in a game and pulls himself out in the third inning and now wants to be baseball commissioner after claiming baseball is a crime and people shouldn't play it.'
...
" 'I'm involved in this deal because the allegations he made about war crimes are on the fringe of American life. They always were and they are now,' O'Neill told the Houston Chronicle as he embarked on series of media interviews.
"He and a number of other veterans have taken aim not only at Kerry's post war activities but his military duty, for which he received Bronze and Silver medals as well as three Purple Hearts.
"They have suggested that Kerry did not deserve at least one of the Purple Hearts, claiming he exaggerated his shrapnel wounds. And O'Neill is livid that Kerry promotes his military service in campaign commercials even though he asked to leave Vietnam early because of he had accumulated enough Purple Hearts to get an early exit.
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"And he is clearly contemptuous of Kerry's constant reference to his military service on the campaign trail.
" 'He appears in a flight jacket, which by the way we never wore in Vietnam because the temperature was 90 plus degrees,' he said."
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