I Love the Smell of Backpedaling in the Morning

At least one of the goons behind the group of so-called Swift Boat Veterans Against Kerry involved in the new Regnery Press hatchetjob, "Unfit for Command" has retracted and regretted his statement that John Kerry didn't deserve his silver star:

...yesterday, a key figure in the anti-Kerry campaign, Kerry's former commanding officer, backed off one of the key contentions. Lieutenant Commander George Elliott said in an interview that he had made a ''terrible mistake" in signing an affidavit that suggests Kerry did not deserve the Silver Star -- one of the main allegations in the book. The affidavit was given to The Boston Globe by the anti-Kerry group to justify assertions in their ad and book.



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Yesterday, reached at his home, Elliott said he regretted signing the affidavit and said he still thinks Kerry deserved the Silver Star.



''I still don't think he shot the guy in the back," Elliott said. ''It was a terrible mistake probably for me to sign the affidavit with those words. I'm the one in trouble here."

No, Mr. Elliott, it's WE who are in trouble here if this doesn't get the kind of press that the book is getting, and of course we all know it won't.



Interesting how the men who were actually on the same boat WITH Kerry all support him, and it's only a bunch of grudgemongers, like long-time Republican operative and Nixon henchman John O'Neill (not the heroic John O'Neill who warned just about everyone before 9/11 and died in the World Trade Center, but a lowlife scum who's been trashing John Kerry with Kenneth Starr-like zeal for over 30 years, thus giving a new dimension to the admonition, "Get a fucking life already!") who are suddenly offended after thirty years.



Why do I get the sense that Wolf Blitzer, who welcomed O'Neill with open arms isn't going to be rushing to get George Elliott on his show?