JOHN O'NEILL RESPONDS... WHO'S JOHN HURLEY?

John O'Neill, co-author of "Unfit for Command," has been labelled a liar by the left-wing attack dogs and biased pundits. He has stood strongly in this storm and confronted lies by these people because he believes in his cause. O'Neill is not a partisan and has stated he probably would have voted for John Edwards if he was the Democratic candidate, so it has been amusing how the left has consistently tried to label O'Neil and others related to this effort as "liars."

O'Neil took a great approach to face his critics by fielding questions online at The Washington Post:

O'Neill does very well indeed. I'd hate to face him in court. I will be surprised if Kerry defender John Hurley does as well tomorrow, if the questions are of similar caliber. But in fairness, judging by what we've seen so far, Hurley has not been given access to the facts he needs—Kerry's war diaries, the unreleased records, etc. And he's not the lawyer O'Neill is.

O'Neill chose to answer eight or nine antagonistic questions and a few more that requested clarifications of fact or of his previous statements—not one "softball." Hurley took three friendly questions, four tough ones, one neutral (and pointless), and stopped at one point to simply insert a campaign speech. This still gave him time to utter easily-refuted whoppers like "John Kerry served two tours of duty in Vietnam." Obviously, if Kerry has a defense, Hurley can't supply it.