John O'Neill
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  If anyone reading this knows of any lie about O'Neill that has been used to unfairly defame HIM, please contact me.  I wish to also expose lies that unfairly damage HIS reputation.
Please note: I'm adding new pages to this collection every day.  I'm finding several lies per day, and making web pages about them all will probably take me another two months at least!
     As of today (Oct 3, 2004) John O'Neill's book Unfit for Command has been on the number one position of the New York Times bestseller's list for hardcover nonfiction for five weeks straight.  I've been distressed about this book's popularity because it appears to be full of lies (at least one per page is my estimate at this point) and it seems to have the potential to stop John F. Kerry from becoming the next president of the USA.  I believe the USA needs a man like Kerry, with such a great internationalist outlook, to lead our nation.
      When I first examined this book I became immediately concerned about many obvious flaws.  Things like,

--deceptive statements that invite false inferences (such as one in the introduction that invites the false inference that our country didn't use B-52s during the Vietnam war)
--accusations missing needed citations to other publications
--citations to books that lack page numbers
--repeated citation of documents very difficult for readers to find (such as personal statements, FBI records, and military documents)

      In my experience such flaws strongly correlate with lying.  So, I started checking the author's cited sources.  As I expected, I found numerous instances of lying.  Roughly one third of O'Neill's citation-supported claims are embellished with fabricated information that doesn't appear in the cited publication.  I think it is fair to call these "lies" for two reasons: (1) misquotings of sources are surely usually intentional because it is so easy to avoid making honest mistakes, and (2) around 95% of the misquotings in this book strongly favor O'Neill's anti-Kerry claims.
Preface   
Introduction
Part I: John Kerry in Vietnam
    Chapter 1: Debating Kerry
       p. 14: a misquote of Tour of Duty about Kerry's relationship with Dick Cavett
      p. 15: a lie attributing "war criminal" accusation to Kerry
    Chapter 2: The Reluctant Warrior
       p. 27: six lies by O'Neill re what Tour of Duty says about a US division commander interrogating a prisoner
       p. 27: lies by O'Neill about Kerry supposedly claiming in a quote from Tour of Duty that Cam Ranh Bay was dangerous
       p. 28: a lie falsely claiming that Kerry's campaign restricted inspection of Kerry's medical records to one person: an MD the campaign selected
    Chapter 3: The Purple Heart Hunter
       p. 32: O'Neill misquotes Kerry's words from an NBC interview of Kerry
       p. 33: O'Neill concocts a Kerry-quote saying he wouldn't chase after enemy.
       p. 42-3: lies by O'Neill about Kerry's "Bo De massacre" testimony in Tour of Duty
      p. 48: a lie by O'Neill about where Tour of Duty says a mortar attack happened
    Chapter 4:  War Crimes
      p. 51:  two lies by O'Neill about what Tour of Duty says was Kerry's radio name
      p. 55:  a misquoting of Tour of Duty about Kerry's boat-searches
       p. 56: a lie falsely insinuating that Kerry tried to mislead Boston Globe reporters
       p. 58: a lie claiming Tour of Duty quotes Kerry saying he ordered warning shots be made with a .50 caliber weapon
      p. 58: a lie falsely quoting the Boston Globe's biography of Kerry as saying Kerry "butchered a sampan"
   Chapter 5:  More Fraudulent Medals
       p. 87: a lie about what Kerry's 3rd Purple Heart citation says
       p. 93: a lie about what Tour of Duty says about Kerry's bandages for a wound
Part II: Antiwar Protester
    Chapter 6:  A Testimony of Lies
      p. 113: a lie about what Stolen Valor says about Vietnam Veterans Against the War
    Chapter 7:  Meeting with the Enemy
    Chapter 8:  Kerry's Antiwar Secrets
      p. 143, 146-7: a lie about the Dewey Canyon III "returning medals" protest
      p. 145: nonsense about Kerry's medal-toss protest
      p. 147: serious omision re Dick Pershing's death
    Chapter 9:  Kerry's Communist Honors
       p. 170: O'Neill's conflicting claims about effects of Kerry's antiwar protest
      p. 180: a lie claiming Kerry accused all American troops of war crimes
    Chapter 10: Unfit For Command
Appendix A
Appendix B
Notes
  
Acknowledgements
Index
        p. 216: a serious omission: Vietnamization
Some data about the sources listed in the bibliography
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