Posted on 08/09/2004 4:38:33 AM PDT by syriacus
It is apparent to many of us that Kerry has been attempting to rewrite history, to make Nixon look like the "bad guy" who caused the most deaths in Vietnam.
Kerry is so eager to make the Vietnam War a Republican war that he cunningly arranged, in his 1986 Senate speech to blame Nixon for the 16,000+ Vietnam deaths in 1968 that occurred while Johnson was president.
Kerry sneakily pushed Vietnam deaths of 1968 from Johnson's column into Nixon's column.
John Kerry - March 27, 1986 Senate Speech (Christmas in Cambodia)
I remember a politician who ran for President in 1968 with the secret plan for peace, and he was elected. ... At the time that he ran there were only 22,000 or so names eligible to be on the wall down there at the Mall. When he finished, there were 58,000.
Here are the Vietnam statistics and you can see for yourselves that about 16,000 deaths occurred in 1968, when Johnson was President.
| Year of Death or Declaration of Death | Number of Records |
| 1956-1960 | 9 |
| 1961 | 16 |
| 1962 | 52 |
| 1963 | 118 |
| 1964 | 206 |
| 1965 | 1,863 |
| 1966 | 6,143 |
| 1967 | 11,153 |
| 1968 | 16,592 |
| 1969 | 11,616 |
| 1970 | 6,081 |
| 1971 | 2,357 |
| 1972 | 641 |
| 1973 | 168 |
But about 21,000 died in Vietnam while Nixon was president.
Kerry should have compared the number dead when Nixon took office with the number dead when Nixon left office.
Did Kerry deliberately try to make it look like Nixon was responsible for more deaths than Johnson was? Did Kerry deliberately try to make it look like Nixon was responsible for deaths that occurred in 1968?
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" Did Kerry deliberately try to make it look like Nixon was responsible for deaths that occurred in 1968?"
Why not? He has the evil Nixon sending troops into Cambodia that same year, when he was not yet president. Facts, to Kerry, are not stuborn things at all.
Better yet, does this mean that Kerry, who has a secret plan for ending the war in Iraq, bears total and complete responsibility for the deaths of soldiers in Iraq?
Would sound accurate to me if he had had his way: start the war, surrender alongside French experts, use no weapons capable of actually killing the enemy, rely on the French for intelligence, ...
Kerry is a pathological liar.
Here are the links to a few of my many John Kerry is a liar posts.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1163131/posts?page=11608#11608
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1185436/posts?page=82#82
Kerry doesn't come out and directly say the 16,000 died while Nixon was president.
But Kerry does his best to make sure people will think Nixon and Nixon's "secret plan for peace" were responsible for all those extra deaths.
Good point!
I enjoyed your two links!!
At first, I missed your tip to use the tune "Riders on the storm." I was figuring I should use "Bringing in the sheaves." I know, ears of corn are not sheaves.
On the other hand, maybe
"Bringing in the Skeeves"
would be appropriate.
Kerry is a limitless source of comedy material. I wish I had a 30 minute national TV or Radio spot everyday.
And the way he flip-flops makes one wonder who is pulling the strings. Along with that piece of fluff of an ambulance chaser, I can't help but wonder if the Democrats will pull a Toricelli. So what if the deadline has passed. They already found out that the judges will let them flaunt the laws.
If you add the five years that we were involved in combat while Nixon was in the White House, you get 20,863.
Which is greater?
Vietnam was a Kennedy-Johnson disaster that Nixon had tried to salvage but utiimately just attempted clean up the mess that they started. I voted for Goldwater!
This is a curiosity. FR has has numerous threads recently in which Kerry is quoted as saying Nixon sent him to Cambodia, but the Congressional Record just says "the President". Did Kerry say one thing on the floor of the senate and later have his speech "corrected" for the Record?
Such corrections are common. In fact, speeches can be inserted in the Record without taking the trouble to give them, but I wonder if Kerry really Believes Nixon was responsible for the war.
That's a good point. I will have to look around later. Going to work.
It depends on what the meaning of "is" is.
Ha! Wonder where I've heard that before?
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1091820730.comments.shtml
"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 absudity of almost {being} killed by our own allies in a country in which President Nixon claimed there were no American troops was very real."The SwiftVets state that this quote is from Kerry's October 14th, 1979 article in the Boston Herald.
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