John H. Hinderaker and Scott W. Johnson: Unwrapping Kerry's story of Christmas in Cambodia

Star Tribune ^ | August 17, 2004 | John H. Hinderaker and Scott W. Johnson

[swilhelm73]

On March 27, 1986, John Kerry took the floor of the U.S. Senate and delivered a dramatic oration indicting the foreign policy of the Reagan administration. As is his habit, Kerry drew on his Vietnam experience in explaining his opposition to the policy.

"I remember Christmas of 1968, sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and having the president of the United States telling the American people that I was not there."

To emphasize the importance of this incident to his subsequent political development, Kerry asserted: "I have that memory which is seared --seared -- in me, that says to me, before we send another generation into harm's way we have a responsibility in the U.S. Senate to go the last step, to make the best effort possible to avoid that kind of conflict."

[p. henry]

This is from the Minneapolis Star Tribune website????? I am stunned. Kerry may actually be in trouble here if a newspaper with the political orientation of the Star Tribune allows an article like this to appear on its website.

[Havoc]

Kenny Rogers' does tribute "Christmas in Cambodia" at Rep. Convention. News at 11.. lol

[frankenMonkey]

Given the attention lavished on President Bush's service in the Air National Guard earlier this year, we thought that newspapers such as the Washington Post and the New York Times would want to devote comparable attention to John Kerry's Christmas in Cambodia story. We also thought they would want to consider what the falsity of Kerry's story might have to tell us about the uses to which Kerry is putting his Vietnam service in the current presidential campaign.

It's from the Star-Trib's website, but it appears the truth is slowly but surely being exposed.

[mountaineer]

John Kerry’s Cambodian Christmas
(To be sung to the tune of White Christmas
with the most sincere apologies to Irving Berlin)


Verse:
The war is raging
I'm on my boat
Ferrying CIA.
There's never been such a day
Here or at Cam Ranh Bay.
But it's December the 24th
We're fighting gooks from Vietnam north ...

Chorus:
I'm dreaming of a Cambodian Christmas
Although there'll be no snow or ice.
On a secret mission
With bullets whizzing
Ouch! My butt's shot full of rice.

I'm dreaming of a Cambodian Christmas
With every Charlie that I shoot.
Nixon's war is stealing my youth
Hope the girl I marry has some loot.

I'm dreaming of a Cambodian Christmas
Just like the one I never knew.
Wonder why my shipmates
Express such deep hate
For me, I really have no clue.

I'm dreaming of a Cambodian Christmas
I hope my gift's a Purple Heart.
War crimes in which I played a part
Will give my political career a start.

[dirtboy]

This is from the Minneapolis Star Tribune website????? I am stunned.

It also ran in the Philly Daily News today - which on Tuesday ran an editorial with every anti Swift Boat talking point included. I don't know if this is damage control or if the MSM realizes they have a very serious credibility problem now with their ignoring of the Christmas in Cambodia matter.

[dirtboy]

ping

[Cincinatus' Wife]

John Kerry testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, chaired by William Fulbright, in April 1971. Photo UPI

THESE ARE THE WORDS OF JOHN KERRY...

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