David's review
Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry by John E. O'Neill
This book is poorly written and hard to follow, but I gave it three stars rather than two because it did provide some useful information. I had the misconception that Kerry actually servied honorably in Vietnam and had been in Vietnam for an extended tour of duty throughout his career. But this book provided clarity on that issue in that he only served three months in Vietnam and got sent home. Thus, he clearly exaggerated his service in battle as well as his story that he had been sent to Cambodia at the behest of Nixon's secret war plan. Nixon was not even President when Kerry allegedly went to Vietnam. Many of the allegations in this book are impossible to verify, but it is clear to me now that Kerry was no war hero and he dishonored his brothers who served when he came back and accused them of being war criminals who had raped, beheaded and killed children. Thus, this book served the useful purpose of exposing this man as the fraud that he was and, thus, how unqualified to he...more
