SWIFT VETS:Transcrip of O'Neil vs Kerry on Dick Cavett (sKerry:Disembler then/Disembler now)

http://swift1.he.net/~swiftvet/index.php?topic=KerryONeill ^ | Aug 2004 | Dick Cavett via Swift vets

[farsighted]

This is an amazing transcript. If only the talk shows of today would let the participants talk like this one. This shouting liar, liar has got to stop.

[Taliesan]

MR. CAVETT: No one has said that there'll be a bloodbath if we pull out, which is a cliche we used to hear a lot. Does either of you still think there would be a –

MR. O'NEILL: I think if we pull out prematurely before a viable South Vietnamese government is established, that the record of the North Vietnamese in the past and the record of the Viet Cong in the area I served in at Operation [unintelligible] clearly indicates that's precisely what would happen in that country.

MR. CAVETT: That's a guess, of course.

MR. KERRY: I –

MR. O'NEILL: I'd say that their record at Thua, at Daq Son [phonetic spelling], at a lot of other places, pretty clearly indicate that's precisely what would happen. Obviously, in Thua, we've discovered, how many, 5,700 graves so far, at Daq Son four or five hundred.

MR. KERRY: The true fact of the matter is, Dick, that there's absolutely no guarantee that there would be a bloodbath. There's no guarantee that there wouldn't. One has to, obviously, conjecture on this. However, I think the arguments clearly indicate that there probably wouldn't be.

Note Kerry's assessment, 35 years ago, of the probable result in South Vietnam.

This is the man who thinks he understands the situation in Iraq.

I note that on every testable point of contention between John Kerry and John O'Neill, O'Neill has been right.

[unsycophant]

What I was very stunned to learn from this, is how well he Kerry was pegged by O'Neill so many years ago.

They say ONeill is a Republican, but on the Nixon tapes when he didn't know he was being taped, he said "I'm a Democrat and so is my family". I don't have a link to this but I know I read or heard it somewhere.

That a Dem was reacting to Kerry and saying what he did so many years ago, is telling about Kerry's agenda and how obvious his lies were even then.

I think we're all a little tired of the Kerry Act.

[Mr Rogers]

Bump.

10 months after this debate (27 Apr 72), my Dad was killed in a helicopter crash in Vietnam. I was 14.

According to Kerry, my Dad wasted his life. Since he was a Colonel, I suppose, according to Kerry, he was a war criminal.

Neither was true. Which is why I've donated to Swiftvets...