who didn't have a problem with Kerry shooting an armed man, even if he was fleeing. If he was armed, he could very easily turn around and shoot you.
From this interview:
MATTHEWS: Why do you disagree with the Navy on this?
O‘NEILL: Well, because the Navy didn‘t have the facts.
The citation, which you can read in the book “Unfit For Command,†says that he turned into superior forces and into intense fire. He was on a gunboat with 20 or 30 troops. It was a huge gunboat. There was a single fleeing Viet Cong.
Commander Elliott, who wrote the citation, indicated he didn‘t understand that. All of us defend his right to shoot that guy in the back because the guy had fired at him. None of us say that was a war crime. What we do say, had the Navy known the actual facts, he wouldn‘t have received the Silver Star. There was an Army...
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From an interview with O'Niel of Swiftboats...
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- So this is why Kerry has avoided releasing his records
- Sorry, I'm with Kerry on that one.
- What crap. Killing an armed enemy who is fleeing is definitely proper conduct during war. The fact that the enemy was young is irrelevant. He was armed. Even if unarmed, it was kosher.
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