John O'Neill, author of Unfit for Command and Swift Boat Veteran, has given an interview with Kevin Aylward at Wizbang. Read the whole thing, but here's a stunning excerpt:
Aylward - On a personal level, what has been the most surprising or shocking thing that you've learned through this whole experience.O'Neill - The level of depravity in John Kerry's soul. I knew of his post-war activities, but I believed some of the stories in the Brinkley biography. I had no idea he fabricated the Sampan event. There was a point in our 1971 debate when I pinned him down and he was forced to admit he had never personally seen atrocities committed. In the writing of Unfit For Command and gathering the stories of other Swift Boat veterans we learned of the Sampan event, of Kerry burning villages with his Zippo lighter, slaughtering animals, etc. It turns out the Kerry lied about every single bit of his Vietnam story.
John O'Neill affirmed earlier that his dispute with John Kerry is personal not political.
Posted by Alan at October 21, 2004 05:55 AM