Kerry camp: Candidate 'inaccurate' on Cambodia

World Net Daily ^ | 8-12-04

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Thursday, August 12, 2004

Kerry camp: Candidate 'inaccurate' on Cambodia Says senator mistakenly thought it was Christmas trip when he crossed border

Posted: August 12, 2004
3:45 p.m. Eastern

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

Days after charges were first made public, John Kerry's campaign is beginning to respond to allegations the senator has lied for decades about being in Cambodia for Christmas in 1968, saying he was at or near the border but not actually in the country for the holiday.

As WorldNetDaily reported, the authors of the best-selling book "Unfit for Command," which refutes many of Kerry's war stories, claim that despite the senator's 1986 speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate mentioning spending Christmas Eve in Cambodia, the candidate was never in Vietnam's neighboring country.

"I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting in a gunboat in Cambodia," said Kerry on the Senate floor. "I remember what it was like to be shot at by Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and have the president of the United States tell the American people I was not there; the troops were not in Cambodia."

Kerry was referring to President Nixon, who was not sworn into office until 1969.

Fox News Channel's Major Garrett reported on "Special Report with Brit Hume" yesterday:

"The Kerry campaign has been forced to admit errors in statements Kerry made in a 1979 Boston Herald article, and in a 1986 Senate speech … about vivid memories of his leading a Swift Boat into Cambodia and taking enemy fire on Christmas Eve 1968."

Garrett's segment included responses from John Hurley, the national director of Veterans for Kerry.

"I don't know that anyone can actually say whether or not they were in Cambodia," Hurley said.

"[It is a] very watery area. It is – there's no sign that says welcome to Cambodia. It is – it is obviously dusk and getting darker, and so they were in those waters."

FNC reported Kerry's campaign also says he was in Cambodia on a different mission with Navy Seals, but can provide no date for that mission.

Stated Hurley: "He was five miles into Cambodia, but what's happened is these two stories have gotten confused."

Hurley says Kerry was simply mistaken about the date of his incursion.

"I think that he knows that he was under fire in Cambodia," he said. "I think the date is what's inaccurate, that it was just not Christmas Eve Day."

John O'Neill, co-author of "Unfit for Duty," is pleased Kerry's people are beginning to respond to his charge.

"I understand that he is beginning, at least, to admit that he was never in Cambodia, for example, at Christmastime," O'Neill told Fox. "Which was a complete lie that he told over and over and over again."

Kerry spent four months in Vietnam as skipper of a Swift Boat before returning to the U.S. and becoming a vocal leader of the anti-war movement.

[proudofthesouth]

I can't believe it. This guy is actually dumber than Gore!

[Ben Chad]

If a Democrats lips are moving, they are lying.

Roger that!!

[Ann Archy]

Hurley of Veterans for Kerry should be ASHAMED of himself. Did HE commit Atrocities?

RELEASE THE KERRY RECORDS!!!

[Ann Archy]

Michael Kranish writes : " one of the most powerful recounts of Christmas Eve..the passage, written in a second person voice, reads like a novella." "Today, you move to the northern end of the area-towards Cambodia- and excitement tingles the nerves that appreciate the new and the unexplored." " Kerry recalls his enjoyment in starting the engines, hearing ' it's deep throb.. and the hums as the boat reaches for the step.' " A woman holds her baby tight against her bare breast and nipple firm, gives life; my voice asks where she is going and unabashed she bares her breast to replace the youngster's fumbling, tiny lips..." Two points-Kerry's own diary says he was heading towards Cambodia on Christmas Eve. Kerry also recounts the famous Christmas celebrations by the Vietnamese. It appears that Kerry may have been writing a book in his spare time. The breathy passages,the bodice ripping prose, the hero risking all. All Kerry needed was a ripped, bare chested Fabio on the cover and he could have sold his diary as a romance novel. Page 84-85 " John F Kerry, The Official Biography By The Boston Globe Reporters Who Know Him Best." 3 Michael Kranish writes : " one of the most powerful recounts of Christmas Eve..the passage, written in a second person voice, reads like a novella." "Today, you move to the northern end of the area-towards Cambodia- and excitement tingles the nerves that appreciate the new and the unexplored." " Kerry recalls his enjoyment in starting the engines, hearing ' it's deep throb.. and the hums as the boat reaches for the step.' " A woman holds her baby tight against her bare breast and nipple firm, gives life; my voice asks where she is going and unabashed she bares her breast to replace the youngster's fumbling, tiny lips..." Two points-Kerry's own diary says he was heading towards Cambodia on Christmas Eve. Kerry also recounts the famous Christmas celebrations by the Vietnamese. It appears that Kerry may have been writing a book in his spare time. The breathy passages,the bodice ripping prose, the hero risking all. All Kerry needed was a ripped, bare chested Fabio on the cover and he could have sold his diary as a romance novel. Page 84-85 " John F Kerry, The Official Biography By The Boston Globe Reporters Who Know Him Best."

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!! In Kerry's own words, ladies and gentlemen!! What a LYING DORK!

[DianeDePoitiers]

What's depressing is that this guy's gotten away with lies for so long. No wonder he thinks he can get away with it.

Some late-night comedians are missing a great opportunity. The only comedian I'm aware of who has worked this into his routine is Jackie Mason.

[Cloud William]

"Now there wont be many if any witnesses against for THE NEW DATE..."

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Especially if the new date is not revealed and the mission was some top secret affair with Navy Seals and the CIA.

Yeah... that's the ticket. By the way... have you met my wife, Morgan Fairchild?

[Colonel_Flagg]

So, either Lurch was in Cambodia before he wasn't in Cambodia or it was Christmas before it wasn't Christmas. Which was it? Or was it both before it was neither?

[philman_36]

Bwahahahahaha.......those whose ears are so bent that they actually believe this schmuck... deserve what they get.....
How does the saying go? "Misery loves company."
The scariest thing to consider in that is that they think you too deserve what they get.
Now that's sKerry!

[DianeDePoitiers]

"Recently I heard a clip of Clinton being asked "Did you know that XXXX was happening?" Clinton's response was something to the effect of "I'm not aware of any evidence to that effect". I don't remember the exact wording of the question or answer, but I do recall noting that the question asked 'DID you know...' [past tense] while the response was definitely present-tense.

"My interpretation: 'Yes I did know that, but I'm not aware of any evidence that I haven't destroyed.'"

I think that was the time when Clinton was being asked if he knew that the Sudan had been offering to send bin Laden to us.

[philman_36]

...the senator's 1986 speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate...
You know, the worst thing about all of this is that the people in that Senate hearing were so inept that they didn't even catch that "mistake". They didn't question him at the time or anything. They simply "took his word for it".

[Ax]

During my career, I tried to rack up as many countries visited as possible. On the wall in my "commo bunker," I have a photo of me on Nui Ba Den. In the background is Cambodia. Using the Kerry model, can I now count Cambodia as a country visited? I didn't think so.

[AFPhys]

no no no no ... you've got it backwards...

"I WASN'T in Cambodia (on Christmas) before I Was (later)."

As a previous poster stated: Every GI knows exactly what he was doing in Nam on the Christmas he was there. Every one.

Kerry lied about this, TOO.
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[Intolerant in NJ]

Bump...

[uncbob]

I can't believe it. This guy is actually dumber than Gore!

Very true he should be at about 15% in the polls ( all the black vote, commies on campus, and the left wing media)
Unfortunately that is not the case and that is downright SCARY

[Cultural Jihad]

The way you phrased it allows for the possibility that he spoke the truth. My way of phrasing it does not, since it's impossible for someone to have been somewhere before one wasn't. ;-)

[greasepaint]

Kerry took his lies from the movie "Apocalypse Now'.
The Christmas date is important, it gives the Vietnamese
a reason for fireworks, sorta like the scene in
the movie when at the bridge.

[EternalVigilance]

You know, the worst thing about all of this is that the people in that Senate hearing were so inept that they didn't even catch that "mistake". They didn't question him at the time or anything. They simply "took his word for it".

If you took all the exagerations of Senators and piled them end to end, they would reach all the way to Massachusetts...

[philman_36]

If you took all the exagerations of Senators and piled them end to end, they would reach all the way to Massachusetts...
And then fall into the ocean?

[EternalVigilance]

And then fall into the ocean? P> Yes.

It's called 'the Kopeckne Effect'...

[EternalVigilance]

And then fall into the ocean?

Yes.

It's called 'the Kopeckne Effect'...