Take his advice

Dear Editor,

I wish to request that your readers, should they follow Mr. Anderson's advice, drill down through the surface of the swiftvets sites to find that John Ellis O'Neill, the putative leader of this group, was not even in the riverine combat zone at the same time as John Kerry, and that he was recruited by convicted felon Charles Colson to run an anti-Kerry effort for Richard Nixon in the early '70s.

Further research shows ties between this group and an extreme right-wing Web site (freerepublic.com) as well as ties to Republicans for clean air, the Bush smear campaign against John McCain in the 200o South Carolina primary.

Patrick l. Tolle

via e-mail