John Kerry's Christmas in Cambodia

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ^ | 08/10/2004 | Interesting Times

[timpad]

And then there's this, from the Washington Post:

And who is he, really?

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.

Date of the article? June 1, 2003. Try not to read the whole article, it is so filled with fawning sentences like the last two that you might develop "contact diabetes."

[Lady GOP]

John Kerry: only person in Vietnam to receive a Purple heart for bumbling a grenade and blowing his own ass up.

[Imaverygooddriver]

-- President Nixon, of course, did not assume office until January of 1969.

Not according to liberals. To liberals, Nixon was entirely responsible for Vietnam. Johnson? Who`s that? Kennedy? Who`s that?

[Just mythoughts]

JFKerry's house built upon lies is crumbling before our eyes.

The question is how deep has his deception been sown?

[quadrant]

John Kerry's remarks are typical of Baby Boomers.
Having lived dull lives of relative comfort, they feel envious at the exploits of others.
They wish to construct an heroic (or troubled) past that can be used to justify current actions, enhance their current prospects, or impress others.
Boomers create incidents in their minds, events that are perhaps fully fabricated or only partially fabricated.
It is important for the Boomer that the circumstances surrounding the events be credible even if factually untrue, for he does not want to be caught in an outright lie.
At first, these incidents are never vocalized, but as time passes and the person mentally revisits the incident, details are added to the incident until it takes on the vivid character of real life experience.
Fearful of discovery, the Boomer recounts the enlarged and fabricated event only reluctantly.
However as time passes and no one challenges the veracity of his story, he is more open with the story.
Finally, he has told the story so many times that he comes to believe it himself.
Its certain John Kerry believes he was in Cambodia in 1968, despite any evidence that might be presented to the contrary.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[joebuck]

"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, that says to me."

If the Kerry campaign is now claiming that Kerry was "mistaken" about Cambodia, please tell me how a memory that never happened gets "seared" in one's brain?.

[doug from upland]

Thanks for the ping.

[gunnygail]

AB-SO-LUTE-LY 1000% percent on the money. Funny to listen to their pathetic efforts. I used to get that a lot driving a limo as my second job while in the Marines. Once they realize that I was on active duty, I started to get tales of how they tried to enlist, fly a fighter jet, they always wanted to go..., yabba, yabbba, yabba. I preferred that they just shut the FVVVCK up and tip me well.

[gunnygail]

AB-SO-LUTE-LY 1000% percent on the money. Funny to listen to their pathetic efforts. I used to get that a lot driving a limo as my second job while in the Marines. Once they realize that I was on active duty, I started to get tales of how they tried to enlist, fly a fighter jet, they always wanted to go..., yabba, yabbba, yabba. I preferred that they just shut the FVVVCK up and tip me well.

[Lady GOP]

It would be nice if this Cambodia issue was the only thing that Kerry lied about!

Don't like the smell of this guy at all. It will be real real bad if he can get in. And even though he is courting a lot of progun states and claiming he's progun you can be sure he will institute massive gun control laws. Anyone to the left of Hilary is the worst you could get.

[Pure Country]

Given to me by a CIA guy as we went in for a special mission in Cambodia."

Amazing, isn't it, what all Kerry accomplished in Nam in four short months. All those medals, secret missions and war crimes. Can you imagine if we had just 100 Kerry's in the service...we could let the other guys all go home. He can do it all!

[cricket]

"Kerry wasn't in Cambodia before he was in Cambodia."

Would you please send that info/line to Drudge?

[Lady GOP]

Noone including O'Neill is disputing Rassman's claim. Why are the lefties AFRAID of these Swifties..? Because they know if it was one wildcard making these claims they'd beat him to a pulp. They talk to 60 guys in their book. And listen to O'Neill sometime; he is fabulous.

[IPWGOP]

[maggief]

http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/journal_day2.shtml

John Kerry's Vietnam War journal

Excerpt from a type-written journal kept by John F. Kerry during his tour of duty in the Vietnam War:


...It's cool now and the evening has closed around you to become full night. The night for once is comforting and you take a coke and some peanut butter and jelly and go up on the roof of the cabin whit your tape recorder and sit for a while, quietly, watching flares float silently through the sky and flashes announce disquieting intent somewhere in the distance. You call down to one of your men and ask him to draft a message to the Admiral in Command of all Naval Forces in Vietnam and also to the Commander of Market Time. IT says "Merry Christmas from the most inland Market Time unit." You hope that they'll court marshal you or something because that would make sense. But the night soothes everything and the people and things that are close to you dart through the mind and bring the only warmth and peace that there is. Visions of sugar plums really do dance through your head and you think of stockings and snow and roast chestnuts and fires with birch logs and all that is good and warm and real. It's Christmas Eve.

[Maeve]

Roman Catholic Vietnamese celebrate Christmas.

[cricket]

Did they ever find Spaulding Gray?

[stockpirate]

Done deed