Posted on 08/07/2004 11:59:31 PM PDT by Steven W.
They do note that the released Kerry records do not yet include the relevant documents.
Mr. Kerry has some explaining to do.
WND: Vets say Kerry made up Cambodia story
Back when I was gainfully employed, helping/shilling for the enemy,,,,,,OOPS! Wrong speech!
Folks like Kerry have never accepted nor rationalized this and it is at the heart of why this concoction of Kerry's is so perverted & irrational. Something was seared into his soul which not only never happened but is totally out of context in the logic he then forever employs in his reasoning, positioning and political posturing all these years hence, whether it's bailing from Vietnam and testifying against the troops or here supporting Daniel Ortega (who he fervently believed in) or when he sought to dismantle the intelligence agences throughout his years of public life and the way he decries Republicans, lying and war even on the stump today.
Thanks for posting this!!
Swifties are saying that Kerry was never in Cambodia.
RELEASE THOSE RECORDS BOTOX BOY!
John Kerry keeps telling me he was in Vietnam. I feel bad for those who were there with him. He was a danger. He never knew where he was while he was there.
Last night I appeared on the Alan Colmes radio show to talk about the book. The guest host was Bill Press, an old friend, but someone who had obvioulsy not read the book and also was obvioulsy not inclined to plug it. He opened with a series of silly questions on whether President Bush ought to repudiate the swift boat ads. My reply, and the reply of everyone else who gets hit with this Kerry campaign talking point, ought to be to point out first that the 527 problem is greatest on the Dem side, but also to point out that the swift boat vets and the new book assert that Kerry is a liar, and that it does indeed seem true that Kerry is lying at least with regards to the myth Kerry invented of an illegal mission to Cambodia. Any denunciation of the swift boat ad has to be postponed until the media has done a thorough investigation into Kerry's credibility given we have at least one large example where he is lying.
I wasn't there in 68, but I would not be surprised that we had men up there then. But it wasn't Kerry or any PCFs. It would have bee a few lonely SEALS dropped in by chooper or their special boats. Perhaps even a GB or two. The job was to monitor insurgents. The end of the Ho Chi Minh Trail was where the Mekong crossed Cambodia into South Vietnam. These brave men would be there for a week at a time on their own, within breathing distance of Charlie.
check his story reported by the boston herald ..he says Nixon...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1185354/posts
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.
As recently as July 7, 2004, Michael Kranish of the Boston Globe repeated Kerrys Christmas in Cambodia story on FOX News Channels Hannity & Colmes, indicating that it was a critical turning point in Kerrys life. Kranish had no knowledge, even after his extensive study of Kerry, that he was simply repeating a total fabrication by Kerry. And Kranish was right: Study of the Christmas in Cambodia story is central to understanding John Kerry.
The story is also in the pages of the 2004 biography written by Krahish and other Boston Globe reporters. As we have come to expect, the story is twisted at the end to provide justification for yet another of Kerrys political ruses, this time used to justify what Kerry portrays as his noble and continuing distrust of government pronouncements:
To top it off, Kerry said later that he had gone into Cambodia, despite President Nixons assurances to the American public that there was no combat action in this neutral territory. The young sailor began to develop a deep mistrust of the U.S. government pronouncements, he later recalled.
you've got the thought trail he's tried to convey here & the writers took it hook, line & sinker (the same one trying to trash the SwiftVets, note) - regardless of any "nuance" of the stories he's told, the whole thing is an obviously concocted collection of garbage and it's the centerpiece of the many legends in his own mind.
it's worse than waffling because he leans towards the socialists / communist (or baathist) thugs & doesn't learn from history ... EVER ... while maintaining this incredible mind set that he's empirical in his worldly views and observation while - in truth and fact - he is a phony & a liar. He was so idiological & extreme in his opposition to supporting the freedom fighting contras, just like he turned his back on the troops in Vietnam or unwilling to back the people of Iraq in their quest for freedom & security for the US and the world. it's scary & dangerous.
your point brings light to another of the many absurdities in Kerry's story - what would be the point of such a mission, in truth or reality? There would be no serious objective in sending him up there for the quick little jaunt he's come to expect people to be so gullibly accepting.
This is the editorial cartoon in the Houston Chronicle today. http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/editorial/index.html
This image will change as soon as they put up Monday's cartoon.
True, but their bias won't.
So true! I add that notice, so people viewing the thread the next day will understand why the cartoon has no connection to the thread. I also do it, so those who might want to "save" it will know to do it now and not wait until later because it will be gone.
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