Final Nail in Swift Boat Vets for Bush's Coffin

It has become completely clear that the "Swift Boat Vets" claims are complete lies ON EVERY COUNT.

Finally, the last straw of a life raft these guys have to hold on to is that somehow Kerry is lying about a stopover in Cambodia. According to CNN, one of the heads of the SBV group, John O’Neil - read about his lies and associations all the way back to Nixon here - has said it was impossible to get to Cambodia by river, and claimed he had never been there himself.

Except, he is on TAPE talking to Richard M. Nixon (Damn those Tapes!) stating, yes, he had gone to Cambodia and did it ON A SWIFT BOAT!

(Excerpted from CNN’s Newsnight, via Atrios)

The co-author of the book "Unfit for Command," former swift boat commander John O'Neill said Kerry made up a story about being in Cambodia beyond the legal borders of the Vietnam War in 1968.

O'Neill said no one could cross the border by river and he claimed in an audio tape that his publicist played to CNN that he, himself, had never been to Cambodia either. But in 1971, O'Neill said precisely the opposite to then President Richard Nixon.

O'NEILL: I was in Cambodia, sir. I worked along the border on the water.

NIXON: In a swift boat?

O'NEILL: Yes, sir.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

JOHNS: Now, O'Neill may have an explanation for this but he has not returned CNN's calls. What does seem clear is that a top member of the swift boat group is now being held to the same standard of literal accuracy they've tried to impose on John Kerry

Before this, every other made-up charge has been countered by scores of people associated with Kerry's Vietnam tour (except for 3 or 4 people in the SBV-for-T who were anywhere near him. Further every single Navy record of this period agrees completely with the accounts of Kerry and all his compatriots. (The latest confirmation here.)

Additionally, the claim that these guys have nothing to do with the Bush campaign and are just poor innocent Vietnam Vets standing up for “truth” is now proven false. The latest link to the Bush campaign is here.

These SBVT guys are toast.