Posted on 08/08/2004 5:09:55 PM PDT by Steven W.
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN AUG 08, 2004 19:04:35 ET XXXXX
SWIFT OFFICERS AND VETS: KERRY LIED ABOUT SPENDING CHRISTMAS IN CAMBODIA
Since the early 1970s, Kerry has spoken and written of how he was illegally ordered to enter Cambodia. Kerry mentioned it in the floor of the Senate in 1986 when he charged that President Reagan’s actions in Central America were leading the U.S. in another Vietnam. Here’s what he said as excerpted from the new book, UNFIT FOR COMMAND:
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.
DRUDGE has learned from the accounts of Swift Boat officers and Kerry’s crewmembers that Kerry was never in Cambodia. UNFIT FOR COMMAND authors charge that Kerry made it all up.
“Despite the dramatic memories of his Christmas in Cambodia, Kerry’s statements are complete lies,” according to John O’Neil, co-author and the Swift Boat commander who took over Kerry’s boat. “Kerry was never in Cambodia during Christmas 1968, or at all during the Vietnam War. . . . he was more than fifty miles away from Cambodia.”
Kerry was stationed at Coastal Division 13 in Cat Lo. Coastal Division 13’s patrol areas extended to Sa Dec, about 55 miles from the Cambodian border. . . . Tom Anderson, Commander of River Division 531, who was in charge of PBRs (small river patrol crafts] confirmed that there were no Swifts anywhere in the area and they would have been stopped had they appeared.
All the living commanders in Kerry’s chain of command . . . deny that Kerry was ever ordered to Cambodia. They indicate that Kerry would have been seriously disciplined or court-martialed had he gone there. At least three of the five crewmen on Kerry’s boat, Bill Zaldonis, Steven Hatch, and Steve Gardner, deny that they or their boat were ever in Cambodia.
O’Neill observed that the Cambodia incursion story is not included in Tour of Duty (Kerry’s recent biography). Instead, Kerry replaced the story with a report about a mortar attack that occurred on Christmas Eve 1968 “near the Cambodian border” in a town called Sa Dec and Christmas day was spent at the base writing entries in his journal.
After conducting interviews and research, authors of Unfit for Command conclude, “The truth is that Kerry made up his secret mission into Cambodia.... the lie about the illegal Cambodian incursion painted his superiors up the chain of command. . . . as villains faced down by John Kerry, a solitary hero in grave and exotic danger and forced illegally against his will into harm’s way.”
Developing...
One step from "Elron Hubbard" (L. Ron Hubbard) too. Shyster, thru and thru.
I don't think he supports Kerry I just think he left his spine at McCains house or something like that. Kerry lied when he came back from Vietnam. He later lied about spending christmas in Cambodia when he was a Senator. Lack of backbones is why we are at a point where a lying POS isn't being challenged and might be elected president.
Kerry not only wants the people to elect him on the basis of his Vietnam experience, he has been using his OWN swiftboat comrades as props to get you BELIEVE him. It's only fair that the vast majority of the people who served with and alongside him say that they DON'T endorse him, and that he is using THEM for political gain. Hey, I'd be pissed off if he was using MY image in ads, and would do anything possible to have it stopped. It reminds me of how people like Mellencamp FORBADE the Reagan camp from playing R.O.C.K. in the USA during rallies. He even threatened to sue. Springsteen did this over "Born in the USA" too. He issued a statement that he didn't want it implied that he was a republican. The repubs of course complied and stopped playing the songs.
"...I've stopped visiting Drudge's site. His *(#&(@^! popup ads make it past my blocker and have crashed my browser TWICE.
Download a free utility called "Ad Muncher." It does a much better job stopping pop ups than the Google tool bar, and it blocks the new agravation, "animated" banners. Just do a search for it, download and install it, and leave all the settings on their defaults. I first read about it in PC Magazine, and since I installed it, I haven't had a pop up in two months..."
I wish you could do that to televison and block out on-screen logos, info crawls, and other view obstructing on-screen graphics. Rant over. The dim's nominee, whatever his name is, must be stopped.
Powerful and Moving
"All the living commanders in Kerry’s chain of command . . . deny that Kerry was ever ordered to Cambodia. They indicate that Kerry would have been seriously disciplined or court-martialed had he gone there. At least three of the five crewmen on Kerry’s boat, Bill Zaldonis, Steven Hatch, and Steve Gardner, deny that they or their boat were ever in Cambodia. "
Are they willing to step forward and vouch for truth? Or will they remain silent?
Looks to me like this organization needs to run some more ads.
Your right that is exactly what he is trying to do.
Hanoi Kerry caught in another lie! PING
(Wonder if Hanoi Kerry knew Johnson was President in Dec 68)
I'm there with ya Tonk.
Easy explanaiton:
"I spent Christmas in Cambodia before I didn't."
Col.North is an American Hero...I agree with you about the "left-assesment" though...troubling that those people let their Party-Line affect their judgement on such important matters as our Nations Security.
Thanks.
I almost read over the purpose of this meeting.
Response to Boston VVAW Letter RE: Cairo
"It was felt that our national position is that this is a national issue precisely because what is being done in Cairo is the same as that which is being done in Vietnam and we are against that kind of thing happening."
Little uncanny considering who it is we are at war with on this day.
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I don't know about honest as North did bend and curve the truth before Congress. However he is a genuine Vietnam hero, and his service in the White House showed courage and imagination.
His problem is that he is perceived as lying to Congress while Kerry, who also lied to Congress is perceived as a mythical hero by the media. The guy I'd pick to do this is either Jeremiah Denton or Zell Miller. Of the two Miller would be the guy the media might have to listen to.
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