Atrios is listing a number of John O'Neil quotes which discredit him even more, if that is even possible. I'd like to see this get some media traction to show how none of the attack dogs (now or in the future) are to be trusted. It's also time to put Bush on the defensive. Can't the Kerry people pick an issue and and let the media go into a frenzy just before the convention? There are so many choices (Iraq, economy, Abu Ghraib, health care, etc), just pick one and get going.
CNN's Newsnight just played the O'Neill-Nixon tape, with text graphic on screen:And here is O'Neil this week:
O'NEILL: I was in Cambodia, sir. I worked along the border on the water.
NIXON: In a swift boat?
O'NEILL: Yes, sir.
JOHN O'NEILL: The whole country's watching him avoid the question. You asked about Cambodia. How do I know he's not in Cambodia? I was on the same river, George. I was there two months after him. Our patrol area ran to Sedek, it was 50 miles from Cambodia. There isn't any watery border. The Mekong River's like the Mississippi.[Chris' note: what is he suggesting here? That there is only one main flow? Bullshit, it's loaded with small tributaries that are like a maze. I've been there myself.] There were gunboats stationed right up there to stop people from coming. And our boats didn't go north of, only slightly north of Sedek. So it was a made up story. He's told it over 50 times, George, that was on the floor of the Senate. He wrote articles about it, it was a malicious story because it painted all the guys above him, all of the commanding officers, in effect, as war criminals, that had ordered him into a neutral country, it was a lie.
