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MARK STEYN: Nuanced? Kerry's story just doesn't add up
The Daily Telegraph ^ | August 10, 2004 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 08/09/2004 4:07:19 PM PDT by MadIvan

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To: ozzymandus

---I noticed that kerry's spokesRATs (juan williams in this case) are now claiming that maybe kerry just thought he was in Cambodia when he really wasn't. ---

That's not going to work. He used Cambodia as a political prop too extensively. Are we supposed to feel better that the Democratic candidate for President is a buffoon instead of or maybe in addition to being a liar? The scenario would be Kerry sitting in his boat somewhere in Vietnam, imagining that the people shooting at him are Khmer Rouge and sending missives to his superiors from "inside Cambodia". I don't think so.


121 posted on 08/09/2004 10:08:03 PM PDT by claudiustg (Go Sharon! Go Bush!)
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To: devolve

Kerry's father also hated this country. A trait that was clearly passed on.


122 posted on 08/09/2004 10:16:57 PM PDT by One Point Of Light
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To: claudiustg

---I noticed that kerry's spokesRATs (juan williams in this case) are now claiming that maybe kerry just thought he was in Cambodia when he really wasn't. ---

That's right, Juan. And Kerry just thought the CIA was ordering him to be silent about it, when he was shuttling CIA agents in and out of Cambodia.

This is what he told the Associated Press in 1992:

By Christmas 1968, part of Kerry's patrol extended across the border
of South Vietnam into Cambodia.
"We were told, `Just go up there and do your patrol. Everybody was over there
(in Cambodia). Nobody thought twice about it," Kerry said. One of the missions,
which Kerry, at the time, was ordered not to discuss, involved taking CIA
operatives into Cambodia to search for enemy enclaves.
"I can remember wondering, `If you're going to go, what happens to you,"'
Kerry said.


123 posted on 08/09/2004 10:20:22 PM PDT by One Point Of Light
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124 posted on 08/09/2004 10:30:22 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: One Point Of Light

---That's right, Juan. And Kerry just thought the CIA was ordering him to be silent about it, when he was shuttling CIA agents in and out of Cambodia. ---

When you see the clever people grasping at such thin, unpromising straws you know the game is up. It amazes me that they never thought about any of this. These stories were out there and they just cheered Kerry through the nominating process without a second thought.


125 posted on 08/09/2004 10:35:37 PM PDT by claudiustg (Go Sharon! Go Bush!)
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To: devolve

Proof, once again, that liberalism causes mental illness.


126 posted on 08/09/2004 11:05:33 PM PDT by My2Cents (http://www.conservativesforbush.com)
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To: mewzilla
He's nuts. Literally.

Wrong! He's a poser, a wannabe, a liar and a cheater. He wants to be respected too much to earn it. He is completely self-interested but he's afraid you won't be very interested so he MAKES STUFF UP about his glory and his honor! He is a braggard and a bore! But he is quite sane. That is the most frightening part of his phoney story, that the ultimate power of the presidency might end up in the hands of a non-genuine human with "issues" concerning his own image!
127 posted on 08/09/2004 11:24:03 PM PDT by cartoonistx
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To: MadIvan

Bump!


128 posted on 08/09/2004 11:25:47 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: PhilDragoo

Just your normal war hero, war criminal, war protester, factual time line problem. Hard to keep all the dates and times in proper sequence. Besides, we know that Nixon would have ordered it if he were the president at the time; so this is a minor discrepancy that should not bear directly on Lt. Kerry's credability or fitness to hold office...</Sarcasm>


129 posted on 08/09/2004 11:27:26 PM PDT by Calamari (Pass enough laws and everyone is guilty of something.)
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To: pushforbush
Look at the end of this Washington Post article from 1993 on John Kerry's own website:

Look in the middle of the article... Kerry claims that, in 1954, at age 11 he went on another unauthorized excursion across a border: into East Berlin! Absurd.

130 posted on 08/09/2004 11:41:33 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tagline shut down for renovations and repairs. Re-open June of 2001.)
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To: dead
In a British way, I read stuff like this and imagine that giant Monty Python cartoon foot stomping down and the John Kerry campaign with a loud "bllllttt."

I already did that with a little animation of Michael Moore -

LINK

I have a lot of respect for Terry Gilliam.

Regards, Ivan

131 posted on 08/10/2004 1:11:13 AM PDT by MadIvan (Gothic. Freaky. Conservative. - http://www.rightgoths.com/)
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To: claudiustg
It amazes me that they never thought about any of this.

They are very used to telling whatever lies they feel like telling and not having them challenged. How long did they own practically every media outlet in the country? 90% of the press might as well be considered a branch of the DNC, down from a high of 99%.

132 posted on 08/10/2004 2:14:14 AM PDT by hopespringseternal
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To: KTpig
Nuanced?
133 posted on 08/10/2004 3:54:52 AM PDT by blanknoone (Kerry is Bin Laden's Man, Bush is Mine.)
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To: pushforbush
Kerry also carries a "good luck hat" given to him by a CIA operative when Kerry transported him to Cambodia... Kerry keeps the hat inside a secret compartment in his briefcase. Look at the end of this Washington Post article from 1993 on John Kerry's own website:

http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/news/news_2003_0601.html

At every Campaign stop, Kerry should be met with protesters chanting,...

"SHOW US YOUR 'SECRET' HAT!!"

This lie is a real chink in his armor. It shows he is certifiably delusional. He is embellishing his lies with props!

134 posted on 08/10/2004 5:39:33 AM PDT by Gritty ("what matters to Kerry is how he looks to the other metrosexuals-Mark Steyn)
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To: MadIvan

bump


135 posted on 08/10/2004 10:49:36 AM PDT by GOPJ
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To: PhilDragoo

Thanks ! Fabulous.


136 posted on 08/10/2004 1:49:47 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
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137 posted on 08/10/2004 7:29:05 PM PDT by potlatch (Sometimes I think I understand everything, then I regain consciousness.)
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