NewsMax: Your News Source with the Short Memory

Newsmax, today:

O'Neill, who served with John Kerry in Vietnam and has been exposing the Massachusetts Democrat's military record ever since, has terrified Kerry's presidential campaign with the explosive new book.

As NewsMax has reported, O'Neill, a leader of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, has:

# Accused Kerry of exaggerating and even faking his wounds. "He literally is a guy who parades around and pretends to be something he's not," O'Neill said.

Newsmax, May 4, 2004:

O'Neill told NewsMax.com that the medals and their back stories were not the real issue being targeted by the organization, referring to the second paragraph of the letter to Kerry:

"It is our collective judgment that, upon your return from Vietnam, you grossly and knowingly distorted the conduct of the American soldiers, Marines, sailors and airmen of that war (including a betrayal of many of us, without regard for the danger your actions caused us.) Further, we believe that you have withheld and/or distorted material facts as to your own conduct in this war."

But it is with regard to the latter sentence of the charge that O'Neill and others get vague.

When asked by NewsMax if they had in mind any potential smoking gun of distortion that might be revealed by an unfettered examination of Kerry's military records, there was no answer forthcoming.