Posted on 08/19/2004 12:07:26 PM PDT by pookie18
O'NEILL: [The Washington Post] is basically a house paper for the Kerry Campaign.
O'Neill is doing his usual FANTASTIC job. Not bloviated, just straight truth.
Bet they do now...
O'Neill makes the point that the Post inadvertently shot a hole in an earlier Kerry lie... that the Kerry people are now repudiating an earlier version of where the 5 boats really were.
O'Neill called the Post the "house paper" for the Kerry campaign and seemed to think that the Kerry blast this morning was rather pathetic.
Jf'ngK being hoisted by his own petard.
CUT AND RUN. The Kerry Iraq program is the same.
If I ever needed an attorney, O'Neill would be my guy!
A CQ reader who wishes to remain anonymous sent this over to me this morning. The reader claims that he had Special Forces experience in Viet Nam and has this to say about Rassman:
There are a lot of angles to the Kerry saga. I doubt anyone gets to every question, but some are compelling to me. The question that goes begging today is why was Rassman there at all?
I don't believe SF will take an official position on this, so I'll post what I have heard. I have never bad mouthed fellow SFers before, but I do have these comments from some sources I trust.
Rassman was reportedly the Asst S-1, which means he was the assistant admininistrative officer. Not exactly a key sought after job for an SF officer LOL. In fact I don't recall knowing of any official Asst S-1 officer slots in the field. Jobs like that are created to keep idiots off the teams.
He was supposedly in charge of awards and decorations (A&D) in a field unit. SF didn't issue many, so it was hardly a taxing assignment. The man doing that job at SF HQ RVN was a Sergeant. Giving it to an officer in a field unit as a primary duty is beyond unusual.
He was probably AWOL when he was with Kerry. At best someone may have said, OK go, just to get him out of the way.
My comments and speculation.
If Rassman was an A&D clerk, his knowledge of how to get awards approved was probably very interesting to Kerry. Since reports indicate he wrote the citation for Kerry's SS, I believe this speculation is well-founded.
And how does an SF LT fall out of a 50' boat? I have been through days and weeks of small boat training and drills, we never had anyone fall out.
Rassman says he was under fire. Anytime anyone was shooting within 50 yds of me I always assumed I was the target until I could prove otherwise. Rassman could not do that while in the drink. I will take the word of the other boat crews that there was no enemy fire at all. They had the best view to assess the situation. My mind keeps going back to Rassman's A&D job. He knew if there was no enemy fire there would be no award citations.
This entire operation smells bad to me. Kerry was in command he gets credit for everything his unit did and everything it failed to do. The Swiftvets are getting heavy pressure and questioning. I would like to see a reporter question Rassman in detail.
To me, the Bronze Star story is really the least of Kerry's problems. However, if the official after-action reports ever come out from the other teams there that day, it may prove rather embarrassing for Rassman, regardless of how many times he can say Spaeth Communications and John McCain in a 1500-word essay. And that's really the crux of the matter: we need to see the entire file on John Kerry to determine who's telling the truth. Is it John Kerry and a handful of people, or over 200 combat veterans who were also there and saw him in action?
Until John Kerry releases his complete military records, the credibility of the Swiftvets will continue to grow. As long as Kerry keeps answering their well-documented allegations with nothing but intimidation tactics, his credibility will be completely suspect. Jim Rassman cannot save John Kerry from himself.
Posted by Captain Ed at 09:56 AM | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
So far Kerry campaign won't have anyone on to rebut O'Neill tonight. Aw, gee, can't they get Hurley on to scream "You're a liar!" over and over while O'Neill is talking?
thanks...I bet Woodward and Bernstein are rolling their eyes at the new bunch of investigative reporters...
Bet they won't show. Behind the scenes, one gets the feeling that the wheels are coming off the Kerry operation and, possibly, the news media is none too pleased with the continued lying. They can't cover for him forever, they are in the business of selling papers. They may have been used, too.
last time I saw Hurley he got himself in trouble by saying (the lie) that Kerry's boat was totally unoperable at the time ... it then towed away PCF-3 boat.
Bet they don't. Further lies, that's all they have.
LOL. Official report has PCF-94 towing PCF-3. Of course, maybe two boats were towed, and the official record is a victim of "fog of war."
I will give Hannity his props today! I often criticize him for being intellectually lazy but today he was OK :)
Swifties need to put some of JK's post-Swift activities in their ads too .. VVAW, Paris, lies before congress etc.
Saigon falls...again November 2nd.
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