[Vision2020] Kerry 'Unfit to be Commander-in-Chief', Say Former Military Colleagues

[Melynda Huskey]

Dear Carl,

Joe Conason of Salon.com notes that O'Neill first came to prominence in '71 
as a protege of Chuck Colson's, and that Colson, Nixon, and Kissinger 
(there's an honor roll for you) hoped to use him to discredit Kerry, whom 
they saw as a real problem for the White House.  In fact, there's a White 
House tape in which Nixon tells Kissinger and Colson not to talk about 
atrocities, since there aren't any.  "Oh, no," says Kissinger, presumably 
sarcastically.  Mind you, just 3 weeks earlier, Nixon himself had intervened 
in William Calley's case to have him placed under house arrest, rather than 
serve prison time for his war crimes at My Lai.

So O'Neill, who is portrayed as a non-partisan, humble Viet Nam veteran, was 
actually recruited by Chuck "Dirty Tricks" Colson to work for Richard "I Am 
Not a Crook" Nixon.  He clerked for Nixon's dearly beloved Justice 
Rehnquist.  More recently, O'Neill was a partner in Clements, O'Neill, 
Pierce, Wilson & Fulkerson, a Houston law firm.  The eponymous Wilson is 
Margaret, Bush's former general counsel, and presently deputy general 
counsel in the Department of Commerce.  (Side note on Wilson:  before she 
joined COPWF, she and White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales were partners in 
Vinson & Elkins, Enron's law firm.)  Another partner, the late "Tex" Lazar, 
ran for Lieutenant Governor with Bush in 1994.  Lazar was a Texas-style 
Neo-Confederate who served on the editorial board of the *Texas Republic* 
magazine (a Texas spin-off of the *Southern Partisan*).

O'Neill is deeply embedded in the same Texas Good Old Boy Elite that spawned 
our President and much of his administration.  Moreover, he didn't get to 
Viet Nam until 2 months *after* Kerry left.  They didn't serve together.

Perhaps a letter will appear in which a number of former colleagues of 
Kerry's will assert that they're still angry about his work with VVAW, and 
that in their opinion, anyone who'd do such a thing doesn't deserve to be 
President.  It undoubtedly won't include as many people as O'Neill says it 
does--but that won't matter, because in this election, flat assertions, no 
matter how ridiculous, triumph over documented fact.  Once O'Neill said it 
and Drudge reported it, it became truth, and the facts be damned.

Melynda Huskey

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