Posted on 08/06/2004 8:59:53 AM PDT by gilliam
KERRY'S CHRISTMAS IN CAMBODIA
This is from Unfit for Command, ( http://humaneventsonline.com.edgesuite.net/UnfitCh3.pdf )the new book by John O'Neill, the man who took over John Kerry's Swift Boat, and co-author Jerome Corsi:
Kerry also described, for example, for the Boston Herald his vivid memories of his Christmas Eve spent in Cambodia: "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."
Problem One: Nixon hadn't taken office yet.
Problem Two: "During Christmas 1968, he was more than fifty miles away from Cambodia. Kerry was never ordered into Cambodia by anyone and would have been court-martialed had he gone there. During Christmas 1968, Kerry was stationed at Coastal Division 13 in Cat Lo. Coastal Division 13’s patrol areas extended to Sa Dec, about fifty-five miles from the Cambodian border...
All the living commanders in Kerry’s chain of command—Joe Streuhli (Commander of CosDiv 13), George Elliott (Commander of CosDiv 11), Adrian Lonsdale (Captain, USCG and Commander, Coastal Surveillance Center at An Thoi), Rear Admiral Roy Hoffmann (Commander, Coastal Surveillance Force Vietnam, CTF 115), and Rear Admiral Art Price (Commander of River Patrol Force, CTF 116)—deny that Kerry was ever ordered to Cambodia...
At least three of the five crewmen on Kerry’s PCF 44 boat—Bill Zaldonis, Steven Hatch, and Steve Gardner—deny that they or their boat were ever in Cambodia. The remaining two crewmen declined to be interviewed for this book.
The Cambodia incursion story is not included in Tour of Duty [the book on Kerry's war years by Douglas Brinkley]. Instead, Kerry replaces the story with a report about a mortar attack that occurred on Christmas Eve 1968 “near the Cambodia border” in a town called Sa Dec, some fifty-five miles from the Cambodian border.
Somehow, Kerry’s secret illegal mission to Cambodia, which he recounted on the floor of the U.S. Senate in 1986, is now a firefight at Sa Dec and a Christmas day spent back at the base writing entries in his journal.
Unless O'Neill and Corsi have made some major error in their reporting, this is pretty stunning. Either Kerry is a pathological liar, or every man in his chain of command is.
http://www.nationalreview.com/kerry/kerryspot.asp
So you been to school for a year or two
And you know you've seen it all
In daddy's car thinkin' you'll go far
Back east your type don't crawl
Play ethnicky jazz to parade your snazz
On your five grand stereo
Braggin that you know how the ... feel cold
And the slums got so much soul
It's time to taste what you most fear
Right Guard will not help you here
Brace yourself, my dear
It's a holiday in Cambodia
It's tough kid, but it's life
It's a holiday in Cambodia
Don't forget to pack a wife
Your a star-belly sneech you suck like a leech
You want everyone to act like you
Kiss ass while you bitch so you can get rich
But your boss gets richer on you
Well you'll work harder with a gun in your back
For a bowl of rice a day
Slave for soldiers til you starve
Then your head skewered on a stake
Now you can go where people are one
Now you can go where they get things done
What you need my son:
Is a holiday in Cambodia
Where people dress in black
A holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll kiss ass or crack
Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot [etc.]
And it's a holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll do what you're told
A holiday in Cambodia
Where the slums got so much soul
Yes, this Kerry guy knows his American History. His recall of who was President is about as accurate as his recall of what happened on the Swift Boats.
Can't imagine that John Kerry would make up a story like this....
Especially when not a single fact exists that would support it. Wouldn't the South Vietnamese soldiers have been Roman Catholics if they were Christian, and celebrating Christmas? Roman Catholics do not celebrate Christmas Eve by drinking and discharging firearms.
I think that once this book is released to the general public, Mr. Kerry will be the recipient of a non-stop barrage of accusations as a liar. If the charges continue long enough, they will stick.
I saw this title and thought of "Holiday in Cambodia"!
GMTA!
"SENATOR KERRY, WERE YOU, OR WERE YOU NOT, SENT INTO CAMBODIA ON YOUR GUNBOAT, AS YOU HAVE CLAIMED ON THE FLOOR OF THE SENATE?"
Maybe we can come up with our own lyrics that are Kerry-related LOL...
I vote pathological liar.
Kerry SUCKS.
I am not that creative, but many here at FR are! I am sure there is a good one waiting to be written!
There seems to be no end to the fabrications from Kerry.
Im trying to find a link to an official senate record or hard proof he said he was in Cambodia. I tried to find it weeks ago when I first heard about this. I googled portions of the quote. I searched the senate records, which is not very easy to do and I probably missed it.
I emailed the author of the story I first read about it, but nothing back.
I know he said it. There has to be a senate record of this.
Another great find, and thanks for post it!
Thanks for the ping!
The Franchurian Dork Candidate, moi Kerri, has been caught in another bald faced lie.
The Franchurian Dork Candidate, moi Kerri, in his convention speech stated "Judge me by my record". moi Kerri, we are doing that and will continue to use your own lying words and record to sink your version of the Titanic, Kerry/EdWeirds 04.
Should be in the 1986 Congressional Record March 27, 1986.
On the floor of the U.S. Senate on March 27, 1986, Kerry launched
one of his many attacks against President Reagan—this time charging
that President Reagan’s actions in Central America were leading
the United States into yet another Vietnam, claiming that he could
recognize the error of the administration’s ways because he had experienced
firsthand the duplicity of the Nixon administration in lying
about American incursions into Cambodia during the Vietnam War.
Kerry charged that he had been illegally ordered into Cambodia during
Christmas 1968:
"I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia.
I remember what it was like to be shot at by the 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. I have that memory
which is seared—seared—in me."
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