To: Littlejon
Thanks for posting. This was interesting:
This isn't the first time Kerry's been sniped at. Joe Klein wrote in The New Yorker that Nixon aide Charles Colson formed the Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace in 1971 solely to attack John Kerry.
Colson told Klein that Kerry "was a thorn in our flesh. He was very articulate, a credible leader of the opposition. He forced us to create a counterfoil. We found a vet named John O'Neill and formed a group called Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace. We had O'Neill meet the president, and we did everything we could do to boost his group."
Anyone associated with Chuck Colson from that era (I understand he's turned his life around) shouldn't be trusted at all.
18 posted on
08/18/2004 1:08:07 PM PDT by
lelio
To: lelio
Anyone associated with Chuck Colson from that era (I understand he's turned his life around) shouldn't be trusted at all. Horse Hockey. If memory serves, O'Neill was already debating Kerry when the White House took notice and simply encouraged him to continue. Perhaps even financially supported him. But O'Neill was already on his crusade.
42 posted on
08/18/2004 1:19:18 PM PDT by
jackbill
To: lelio
To: lelio
This is a bunch of Democrap that you posted.
O'Neil has addressed this issue and had no connections with the Nixon White House. He is not a republican.
52 posted on
08/18/2004 1:28:47 PM PDT by
Cold Heat
(http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/staticpages/index.php?page=20040531140357545)
To: lelio
Anyone assassinated by Hackworth and Joe Klein shouldn't be automatically dismissed as a Colson clone. O'Neill isn't a Nixon boy.
86 posted on
08/18/2004 4:32:35 PM PDT by
LibertarianInExile
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