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Vietnam Vet Kerry Told Senate He Saw Military Action in Cambodia
Insight on the News ^ | May 16, 2004 | J. Michael Waller

Posted on 05/17/2004 2:20:21 PM PDT by robomurph

Did decorated Vietnam War veteran John F. Kerry see military action in Cambodia? He says nothing about it on the campaign trail, but he stated it as fact on the floor of the U.S. Senate on March 27, 1986. In that speech, Kerry accused President Ronald Reagan of leading the United States into another Vietnam in Central America, accusing the administration of Nixon-like duplicity and saying that he should recognize it because of his Vietnam experience.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1986; cambodia; kerry; militaryrecord
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To: Cuttnhorse
Hey Buddy!!!! We were same station in An Thoi. 10/67 - 10/68 for me.

Nam Vet

41 posted on 05/17/2004 3:04:54 PM PDT by Nam Vet (The Trolls keep coming.)
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To: robomurph
"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 have the president of the United States telling the American people that I was not there; the troops were not in Cambodia.

Hmmm. Christmas of 1968? Well then, I assume he's talking about LBJ, 'cause Nixon didn't assume office until January 20, 1969.

http://www.archives.gov/nixon/communications_agency/video/1969_post_inauguration.html

42 posted on 05/17/2004 3:05:01 PM PDT by XJarhead
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To: Riley
22 knots?! That's all? They should have come up with another name for them...

LOL! That's what we used to say..."why did they call these things ""Swift??"" Fortunately, most of the junks and other boats we dealt with could only manage about 5-knots, so we had them beat.

I don't think the Frenchies' were corvettes...the only reference I could find described a ship that was captured by the Brits in the 1700's. Probably not the same class boat! LOL!

43 posted on 05/17/2004 3:09:02 PM PDT by Cuttnhorse (John Kerry, Unfit to be Commander in Chief)
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To: Nam Vet

LOL!! Great to hear from you...I was beginning to think I was the only old goat Swifty Freeper around. Now I'll have to be careful about the big BS stories I tell.

I was in An Thoi from Dec. 1965, to about April 66, then our crew was transferred to Cam Rahn Bay. We received some of the first boats to be delivered to Cam Rahn.

Cheers from Chile


44 posted on 05/17/2004 3:12:54 PM PDT by Cuttnhorse (John Kerry, Unfit to be Commander in Chief)
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To: Nam Vet

Got to run, more later.

Cheers


45 posted on 05/17/2004 3:14:44 PM PDT by Cuttnhorse (John Kerry, Unfit to be Commander in Chief)
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To: Cuttnhorse
I don't think the Frenchies' were corvettes...the only reference I could find described a ship that was captured by the Brits in the 1700's. Probably not the same class boat! LOL!

LOL! Probably not. I think although, that if I had my own country to rule, my Navy would have an example of something whimsical, like an Eighteenth Century corvette with a couple of huge, wicked monster engines hidden away in it. They could be tooling along at 10 knots in a good breeze under sail, then suddenly, when needed, they're planing along at 35 knots.

46 posted on 05/17/2004 3:18:36 PM PDT by Riley (Need an experienced computer tech in the DC Metro area? I'm looking. Freepmail for details.)
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To: robomurph

Man that guy can sure do a lot in 4 months! He's got my vote for sure!


47 posted on 05/17/2004 3:28:19 PM PDT by vpintheak (Our Liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain!)
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To: robomurph

He's worse than Clinton.


48 posted on 05/17/2004 3:34:12 PM PDT by ambrose (AP Headline: "Kerry Says His 'Family' Owns SUV, Not He")
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To: robomurph

This should be relatively easy to find out via his military records. I'll be he's lying.


49 posted on 05/17/2004 3:35:20 PM PDT by Peach (,)
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To: WWTraveler

Details, details! 99% of the Sheep probably think George Washington was Prez in 1968.


50 posted on 05/17/2004 3:36:38 PM PDT by ambrose (AP Headline: "Kerry Says His 'Family' Owns SUV, Not He")
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To: Peach

http://www.johnkerry.com/communities/veterans/service.html

December 6, 1968 – Kerry moved to Coastal Division 11 at An Thoi on Phu Quoc Island

December 13, 1968 – Kerry moved to Coastal Division 13, Cam Ranh Bay

December 24, 1968 – Kerry involved in combat during the Christmas Eve truce of 1968. The truce was three minutes old when mortar fire exploded around Lieutenant Kerry and his five-man crew. Reacting swiftly, John Kerry and his crew silenced the machine gun nest

January 22, 1969 – Kerry and other Swift boat commanders travel to Saigon for meeting with Adm. Elmo Zumwalt, Commander Naval Forces Vietnam (COMNAVFORV), and Gen. Creighton Abrams, Commander United States Military Assistance Command Vietnam (COMUSMACV


51 posted on 05/17/2004 3:39:32 PM PDT by RGSpincich
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To: highlander_UW
I don't think those rivers run that far inland.

high: Reminder to self. Please check map before typing.

52 posted on 05/17/2004 3:42:44 PM PDT by cinFLA
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To: Peach
This should be relatively easy to find out via his military records. I'll be he's lying.

Not that easy. My military records will not show that I was inside Hai Phong harbor in 1972.

53 posted on 05/17/2004 3:49:14 PM PDT by cinFLA
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To: cinFLA

Thanks.

Maybe one of the hundreds of fellow soldiers who have signed a letter saying Kerry is unfit can fill us in on the details.


54 posted on 05/17/2004 3:51:46 PM PDT by Peach (,)
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To: RGSpincich

Kerry confirms on his website that he was stationed in Cam Ranh Bay during the time in question. The Bay is in the lower right hand corner of the map in the delta looking area directly above the word "South". Cambodia is along ways from there.

55 posted on 05/17/2004 3:58:17 PM PDT by RGSpincich
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To: Helms
http://johnkerryisadouchebagbutimvotingforhimanyway.com/

It really works! I thought it was just a joke.

56 posted on 05/17/2004 4:10:50 PM PDT by perfect stranger ("Don't shoot – I'm Che! I'm worth more to you alive than dead!" Che Guevara October 1967)
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To: cinFLA

Guess so, I was thinking Laos I believe. Not my fault, they sent me to Germany instead of Vietnam.


57 posted on 05/17/2004 4:14:48 PM PDT by highlander_UW (A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. - Robert Frost)
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To: RGSpincich


58 posted on 05/17/2004 4:16:34 PM PDT by RGSpincich
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To: highlander_UW
Don't forget his personal photographer...that'd be 7 except for the times he needs to roll footage to get Kerry walking around with an M16 and a dumb expression.

I was wondering how he was filmed walking in the forest when he was suppose to be on a boat. Was it really a personal photographer?

59 posted on 05/17/2004 4:18:12 PM PDT by hobson
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To: Hanging Chad
"...In his words, "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

My B.S. meter is peaking

I've been reading up on Vietnam history lately, most recently Kissinger's Ending the Vietnam War.

In '68 the Khmer Rouge weren't operating anyway near the South Vietnam border (nor were they at anytime when American forces were still in country, so far as I know).

The North Vietnamese had three or four divisions in a zone along the border up to ten miles deep, where they'd established base camps both to infiltrate North Vietnamese regulars into South Vietnam, and to provide support for Communist insurgent forces in the South. Indeed the North's overall headquarters for operations in South Vietnam were located here.

They'd been in that border area for a couple years by '68, and had expelled virtually all native Cambodians from the region. They specifically barred Cambodians from entering any of their base camps. The Cambodian government, although they had no choice but to silently acquiesce, certainly did not want the North Vietnamese in it's territory. It basically wrote the occupied region off -- since there were virtually no Cambodian citizens in there anyway -- and didn't operate there.

American forces, to my knowledge, seldom if ever weny any deeper three to five miles into Cambodia, certainly not until '71 when they and the South Vietnamese went in to clear out the North Vietnames bases. (There was no need to go deeper as the Khmer Rouge -- the indigenous Cambodian Communist forces -- were weak and little threat in '68, and our enemies were all right there in that border zone.)

So how the hell did Kerry run into "Khmer Rouge" and "Cambodians"?

60 posted on 05/17/2004 4:19:13 PM PDT by Stultis
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