Posted on 08/11/2004 6:41:38 AM PDT by kristinn
In an interview this morning on Fox and Friends, Kerry spokeman Jeh Johnson backed off of Democrat presidential nominee Senator John Kerry's repeated statements that he had spent Christmas 1968 on a secret mission in Cambodia.
Fox's Brian Kilmead asked Mr. Johnson whether Sen. Kerry would release the action report from January 20, 1969 regarding purported action in Cambodia.
Mr. Johnson said, "I believe you're referring to an incident that happened near Cambodia. Okay, well John Kerry has said on the record that he had a mistaken recollection earlier. He talked about a combat situation on Christmas Eve, 1968, which at one point he said occurred in Cambodia. He has since corrected the record to say it was someplace on a river near Cambodia and he is certain that at some point subsequent to that he was in Cambodia. My recollection, my understanding is he was not certain about that date.
Mr. Kilmead brought up Sen. Kerry's 1986 floor speech in the Senate where he talked about spending Christmas in Cambodia as being "seared---seared" in his memory.
Mr. Johnson replied, "I believe he's corrected the record to say it was someplace near Cambodia, but he is not certain whether it was actually in Cambodia but he is certain that there was some point subsequent to that that he was in Cambodia."
Mr. Johnson also repeated Sen. Kerry's canard that he left Yale in 1966 and turned down all options to further his education by choosing to serve his country. As was (barely) reported in March of this year, Sen. Kerry asked for and was denied a one year deferment to study in Paris.
Wow! Fantastic find. That paragraph alone, with its defense of the Communist takeovers of China and Cuba, and this sterling sentence, "We question the very roots of what we are serving," should be enough to do him in. Granted, he was young at the time, but there has been no indication that he changed these opinions later on.
December 24, 1968 Kerry involved in combat during the Christmas Eve truce of 1968. The truce was three minutes old when mortar fire exploded around Lieutenant Kerry and his five-man crew. Reacting swiftly, John Kerry and his crew silenced the machine gun nest.
January 22, 1969 Kerry and other Swift boat commanders travel to Saigon for meeting with Adm. Elmo Zumwalt, Commander Naval Forces Vietnam (COMNAVFORV), and Gen. Creighton Abrams, Commander United States Military Assistance Command Vietnam (COMUSMACV)
So where exactly was he on Christmas eve, 1968 -- Cam Ranh Bay or on the Delta? I was at Cam Ranh Bay on Christmas Eve 1968 and don't recall any action, except what I might have read about.
There is one worrying thing. Kerry's service on PCF 94 was from late January 1969 to March. Nixon would have been president then. But what about his journal? Did he lie to his journal?
PROOF that johnkerry.com is covering up something!
From http://www.google.com.au/search?q=cache:rCHBXsLxdIEJ:www.scienceblog.com/community/older/archives/K/2/pub2117.html+Report+pdf+1969+kerry&hl=en
This file contains after-action ("spot") reports from two of the combat actions in which John Kerry was wounded.
Spot Reports for January, 1969 (pdf: 2.4MB)
Spot Reports for February, 1969 (pdf: 2.1MB)
Spot Reports for March, 1969 (pdf: 301kb)
But compare this to...
http://www.johnkerry.com/about/john_kerry/combat_reports.html
Where is the Spot Report for January 1969 now??
I don't know the song. I think I've done 4 songs on the topic already.
Oh, he wore one, OK? The damn thing broke!
Kerry's own words before the Seanate regarding Cambodia. See the web site for a photo of the actual news story clipping found in a Law Library.
Kerry Says......
"Mr. President, I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and have President of the United States telling the Americans there; the troops were not in Cambodia.
I have that memory which is seared—seared in me. That says to me, before we send another generation into harms way we have responsibility in the U.S. Senate to go the last step, to make the best effort possible in order to avoid that kind of conflict."
Shot at by Khmer Rouge? Put aside all this Swift Boat (blue) Vets vs the Swift Boat (Red) Vets battle. Just take Kerry's own words and use them against him with historical facts.
http://instapundit.com/archives/017068.php
Dead Kennedys...
Check it out. While its still there!
I'll be a week's pay that this is ignored by the Liberal Drooling Lapdog Press...
The hypocrisy and double standard of the MSM is unbelievable.
First they assert that Bush's dental records are not sufficient to prove he was in Alabama (they actually alleged his teeth could have been there but not him).
Then they give Kerry a pass for repeatedly lying about his whereabouts during the same period.
So let me get this straight. He was in Cambodia before wasn't? Or is it, he wasn't in Cambodia before he was?
Just when you think you've read the worst flip flop, along comes a waffle the size of Texas. Thanks for posting the transcript.
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"Not so fast! You're driving too fast!" said Mrs. Mitty. "What are you driving so fast for?"
"Hmm?" said Walter Mitty. He looked at his wife, in the seat beside him, with shocked astonishment. She seemed grossly unfamiliar, like a strange woman who had yelled at him in a crowd. "You were up to fifty-five," she said. "You know I don't like to go more than forty. You were up to fifty-five." Walter Mitty drove on toward Waterbury in silence, the roaring of the SN202 through the worst storm in twenty years of Navy flying fading in the remote, intimate airways of his mind. "You're tensed up again," said Mrs. Mitty. "It's one of your days. I wish you'd let Dr. Renshaw look you over."
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber
I agree. That interview didn't come off very well. i wanted him to make the guy sit there with his tail between his legs. didn't happen. Who else could have done that interview better on the morning team? E.D. ?
Pray for W and Our Amazing Troops
Maybe Cambodia was a woman's name.
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