I heard this and I was shocked no one followed up or questioned the statement....at the very least I don't ever want to hear any dim or lib-media complain Sadaam was our ally in the 1980's!!!
"Khmer rouge" was just a verbal slip-up. He couldn't tell the truth - he was on a mission to assassinate Col. Kurtz - that's still classified.
With so many stories it's tough to keep it all straight.
Why he still feels the need to lie, hype, and fabricate is beyond me. Certainly he must realize that he's not going to beat out Hillary in '08. Perhaps he just can't admit to himself that he's a has-been....also-ran....history.....yesterday's new.....
Did he not tell T. Russert he'd sign it, what is he waiting for?
This was posted during the campaign:
"On more than one occasion, I like Martin Sheen in "Apocalypse Now," took my patrol boat into Cambodia. In fact I remember spending Christmas Eve of 1968 five miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our South Vietnamese allies who were drunk and celebrating Christmas. The absurdity of almost being killed by our own allies in a country in which President Nixon claimed there were no American troops was very real.John Kerry “Apocalypse Now" on Oct 14, 1979 in the Boston Herald.
The Kerry Campaign has now admitted that this was a fabrication. This is far from a slip of the tongue this is a well thought out written attack on a President and country that not only impugned them, but the Ex-Government of South Vietnam. This soon became the basic prejudice of the history of the Vietnam War. The damage by this statement and further statements shamed an entire generation of men who gave their heroic service to their country and turned it to humiliation.
John Kerry came back from the war a decorated hero and soon parlayed that into the most decorated witness of war crime atrocities committed by the United States and South Vietnam. Nobody would question his truthfulness because he had chest full of medals and had no motivation to lie. Anybody who questioned him was quickly painted as a war criminal and a tool of the military. He was subsequently announced as the only moral person in an immoral war and this is exactly why this lie is so sickening.
We have now found and John Kerry has admitted that he was never in Cambodia on Christmas Eve or any other time. He never violated Cambodia’s sovereignty and neither did the South Vietnamese Army. Forget that President Nixon was not in office in 1968, but he never ordered any American Troops into Cambodia. President Nixon was telling the truth and John Kerry, decorated war hero was lying. President Nixon had to surrender to the North Vietnamese in shame and went to his grave a war criminal because of these lies. Richard Nixon we find four decades later, was telling the Truth.
His testimony and this story was the foundation of the Vietnam scar on America’s military. The stories of torturing prisoners and villagers became the visual of Viet Nam. The indiscriminate incursions into Cambodia and Laos was common knowledge. Because of these stories the soldiers came back from Nam to be spit upon by the American public. Now we find out these stories were all the fantasy of a young John Kerry who managed to keep his fabrications in the America’s consciousness. Vietnam became the rifle butt that hammered our military, over and over again. All of this was built off of the Cambodia lie and his false testimony to Congress.
John Kerry was still telling these lies as of last year when he showed off a hat he brought back from his Cambodia incursion. This he claimed was his lucky hat, given to him by a CIA agent?? What kind of dementia is this man suffering from? Did he actually believe any of his lies or did he enjoy being Mr Macho who steered his boat into another country during combat? Did he enjoy being Blood and Guts Kerry or was there something more sinister??
Because of this lie both Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon became the Pyrrhus’ of American politics. Both went to their graves as accused war criminals, violating the sovereignty of innocent countries. As we find out that they were the innocent victims of a smear campaign led by John Kerry. John Kerry painted himself as the only moral person in an immoral war. As we find out the military was indeed fighting this war morally and the only immoral person in this story was John Kerry. Because of this lie two Presidents were made war criminals and an entire generation of soldiers were spit on. What can John Kerry offer to repair his damage he has done to America?? The very least he can do is finally come clean, apologize for his atrocious lies and resign from the race!
Pray for W and Our Troops
This sounds like the war stories people tell to entertain their grandkids.
Please someone of the period tell if the CIA would ever had included a man of Kerrys rank and duties in a covert gun running operation.
"Who told you?" he demanded as he reached inside. "My friends don't know about this."
The hat was a little mildewy. The green camouflage was fading, the seams fraying.
"My good luck hat," Kerry said, happy to see it. "Given to me by a CIA guy as we went in for a special mission in Cambodia."
OH, SHUT-UP!!! That BS is so thick you can't stir it with a paddle. The only reason anybody knows about that stupid hat is because Kerry wanted it known. "Trapped in an interview" my ass. This was a total set-up.
Since Nam, John Kerry has shoveled such a voluminous pile of bullsh*t in hope of creating a "hero," that not even Kerry himself is capable of sifting through it to find a shred of truth.
Let's face it. Kerry is so full of SH*T, that were he to be given an enema, all that would remain would easily fit into a matchbox.
Pure and simple.
THANK GOD and the American electorate that PRESIDENT BUSH was re-elected.
geez this idiot spent FOUR WHOLE MONTHS in Viet Nam... got transferred out by collecting 3 purple hearts for scratches WITHIN that 4 months...
The 3 least earned yet more proudly displayed medals since Johnsons 'medal of valor' for flying on a helicopter once.
Mr. Kerry, if you still have your CIA cyanide capsule in case you were captured, would you please now take it.
Perhaps the Khmer Rouge were our friends until they met Kerry -- then became our enemies?
If Kerry opens his mouth it is a lie.
He's a loon. Good thing he will never be POTUS.
Kindergartners have been expelled for this, and less.
Becki
INTREP - Archive for 2008
Didn't he also say that he had pictures?