"The inability of Hanoi John to deliver credible information on his bogus Cambodia claim is costing him his campaign. News at 11."
It is more explicit than even some of his other renditions of his "Christmas in Cambodia" tale and of course contains more fodder he should be confronted with.
In fact, Cameron did present this letter to the campaign and is awaiting their response. Not that I am silly enough to think they will provide one, or if they do, it will anything other than some absurd spin.
But while the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have been hammering Kerry's record, every living soldier who served under Kerry's command is backing their former commander.
Wasn't one of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth one of his gunners who served in his boat? I could have sworn I remembered this.
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I have that memory which is seared-seared-in me..."
I hope someone is carefully reading the Congressional Record to see how many other lies John has told. Now, we know that this lie about Cambodia will be minmized by the leftists and dismissed as what? It was simply the effort of an officer who abandoned his unit in the face of the enemy and then spoke publicly in support of that same enemy, trying to make himeself look less like a cowardly traitor. Yeah, that's it. Got that Congressional Black Caucus?
Anyone know if the campaign's gotten back to Cameron yet?
nixon wasn't sworn as president until jan 1969...lol
I hope that someone gets this information and makes it public by having every conservative that gets on TV repeat it and repeat it.
UPDATE: Several readers note that the "near Cambodia" completely destroys the point of Kerry's original statement. This is representative:
If the campaign is really saying Kerry was just "near Cambodia", isn't that phenomenally lame?
When Kerry brought up Cambodia, he was always doing it in the context of presidential lying--i.e. "I was in Cambodia, listening to the president say we had no troops in Cambodia".
With this re-write, it becomes "I was *near* Cambodia, listening to the president say we had no troops *in* Cambodia, which, okay, was true as far as I could tell, but if I'd been just, like, sixty miles further west, it would've been a LIE!"
"I remember what it was like to be shot at by Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians.."
Well, we know he already lied about Nixon, but JOHN, your Freudian slip is showing.
In case any of you missed this Kerry in Cambodia story.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1188632/posts
Wonder how they celebrated Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July?
Kerry said the experience is SEARED IN HIS MEMORY.
Since my understanding is that these boats operated in close-support groups, how is it the Kerry's boat was five miles(!) inside Cambodia, yet NO other boats were nearby?
Is Kerry the only boat commander who was hand-picked to make a "stealth CIA run" into Cambodia, to check reports our Vietnamese allies secretely had rifles with a five mile range in the jungle? And a sighting system to match!
It had to take place then or never, since Christmas Eve & Christmas is the only time they would be drunk enough to let the cat out of the bag.
The answer must have been affirmative on all counts, since he did report the "drunken VN allies" were shooting AT him. Not 'at' his boat; at HIM! They must have been trying to prevent him from reporting back.
Unfortunately, even when confronted with this evidence that we KNEW they had them, we were seemingly never able to get them to share those 'super rifles' with us.
No wonder this is "seared into his brain". It was so traumatic that it made him...it would anyone, dontchya know...mix up who was President and who was only President-Elect.
Yeah, that's it! That HAS to be it. See? There IS a rational explanation...
The 1979 letter mentions Nixon by name. I'd love to see the complete text of that letter.
The secret life of Walter Mitty John Kerry
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59559-2003May30_4.html
A close associate hints: There's a secret compartment in Kerry's briefcase. He carries the black attaché everywhere. Asked about it on several occasions, Kerry brushed it aside. Finally, trapped in an interview, he exhaled and clicked open his case.
"Who told you?" he demanded as he reached inside. "My friends don't know about this."
The hat was a little mildewy. The green camouflage was fading, the seams fraying.
"My good luck hat," Kerry said, happy to see it. "Given to me by a CIA guy as we went in for a special mission in Cambodia."
Kerry put on the hat, pulling the brim over his forehead. His blue button-down shirt and tie clashed with the camouflage. He pointed his finger and raised his thumb, creating an imaginary gun. He looked silly, yet suddenly his campaign message was clear: Citizen-soldier. Linking patriotism to public service. It wasn't complex after all; it was Kerry.
He smiled and aimed his finger: "Pow."
The Powerline blog has lots of good stuff on Kerry's Christmas in Cambodia story.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/
I have no doubt at all that we have Seal, Marine Force Recon and Special Forces in Pakistan right now. We ain't supposed to be there and the President would say we aren't there. But by gosh we need to be there and we need people willing to do it.
That is part of the responsibility of being the President of the US.
Kerry just doesn't have what it takes, a set of brass ones!
There's a lot worse on drudge right now. Hatemonger headline, freerepublic mentioned.
Now, we just need to get them to report on his youthful days at age 12 of sneaking into East Berlin and riding his bike around aaaaaahahahahahahahahahaha