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Kerry "Corrects Record," "Seared" Memory of Christmas in Cambodia Now "Mistaken Recollection"
Wednesday, August 11, 2004 | Kristinn

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.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: christmasncambodia; kerry; kerry2004; kerrylies; militaryrecord; waffles
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To: Callahan

I guess Kerry assumed that these *secret missions* could never be proven one way or another.....being an Army wife, there's nothing worse in my book, when a person lies about his military record and exploits.


61 posted on 08/11/2004 7:00:50 AM PDT by mystery-ak (The most dangerous place in the world...between Moore and Ronstadt in the buffet line!)
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To: kristinn

What other dates would he remember the "Sugar Plum Fairy"?


62 posted on 08/11/2004 7:00:54 AM PDT by tobyhill (The war on terrorism is not for the weak!)
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To: Conservative_boy_in_Bangkok
The issue I have is that 'Seared' is equivalent to a Categorical statement. Where is Dee Dee?
63 posted on 08/11/2004 7:01:09 AM PDT by fooman (Get real with Kim Jung Mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: kristinn

Sauran's tower is beginning to crumble.


64 posted on 08/11/2004 7:01:16 AM PDT by tbpiper (Michael Moore…..the Erich von Däniken of political documentary)
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To: kristinn

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.


65 posted on 08/11/2004 7:01:32 AM PDT by maggief
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To: kristinn

As a follow-up to this admission, Fox News, and others, should pursue another story about Kerry and Cambodia. See "Hunter, Dreamer, Realist", an article in the Washington Post, June 6, 2003. I picked this article off a link to the Kerry-Edwards web site (it may no longer be there). The article (note the date, which is contemporaneous with Kerry's clear intent to run for the Democrat nomination for president), specifically describes Kerry opening his briefcase and removing a green camouflage hat which he is quoted as calling "My good luck hat." He adds, it was "Given to me by a CIA guy as we went in for a secret mission in Cambodia." The use of the hat cannot be dismissed as a mere verbal misstatement. Rather, the calculated use of the hat is out-and-out dissembling, or, if you prefer, lying. It shows, more clearly than mere words, the pathological nature of Kerry, and the lengths to which he will go to self-promote his Viet Nam "service."


66 posted on 08/11/2004 7:02:03 AM PDT by Pharlap
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To: kristinn
As was (barely) reported in March of this year, Sen. Kerry asked for and was denied a one year deferment to study in Paris.

The Tel article neglects to mention that in Kerry's first run at office, in 1970, he was running as a war hero, NOT as anti-war. He was defeated by an anti-war candidate in the primary. THEN hen decided to become anti-war (again). According to Charles Colson in a B. Globe article..

67 posted on 08/11/2004 7:02:06 AM PDT by Poincare
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To: tdadams

somebody check to see if Kerry visited Cambodia as a senator.


68 posted on 08/11/2004 7:02:28 AM PDT by Callahan
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To: kristinn
Wasn't the whole point of Kerry's telling the story in the first place that he was in Cambodia (during the "Nixon era") on some "secret mission" in December 1968?

So what significance does the story have now that we know Kerry wasn't really there? (No Cambodia, No CIA agent, No Nixon in office.) Did Kerry just want to let us know how he spent the holidays?

Makes you wonder how many other of Kerry's stories are concocted.

69 posted on 08/11/2004 7:03:42 AM PDT by wai-ming
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To: InvisibleChurch

It was a navigational error! Yeah, that't the ticket!


70 posted on 08/11/2004 7:03:58 AM PDT by bondjamesbond (We live in a wonderful country where any child can grow up to be the next Ronald Reagan.)
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To: Xenalyte

I am against secession. Any talk like that is foolish.


71 posted on 08/11/2004 7:04:07 AM PDT by kristinn
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To: kristinn

Has anyone noticed that when Kerry gets caught in one of his lies the media switches to Scott Peterson.


72 posted on 08/11/2004 7:04:11 AM PDT by tobyhill (The war on terrorism is not for the weak!)
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To: kristinn
"Near Cambodia" = 55 miles.
73 posted on 08/11/2004 7:04:17 AM PDT by Carolinamom
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To: Callahan

Bump


74 posted on 08/11/2004 7:04:38 AM PDT by kingattax
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To: kristinn

These people are as bad at parsing words as the Clintons.


75 posted on 08/11/2004 7:05:16 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (Must get moose and squirrel ... B. Badanov)
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To: kristinn; Peach; All
I vaguely recall an article someone posted here maybe two months ago, in which it was revealed that Kerry had given an anti-war speech before going to Vietnam, which destroys his contention that he became disillusioned there or was betrayed by Nixon. I believe it was a commencement address, but maybe not at Yale. Does anyone recall that article, or the details?
76 posted on 08/11/2004 7:05:27 AM PDT by HenryLeeII (sultan88, R.I.P.)
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To: bondjamesbond

mara liasson onthe brit hume show said as much the other day


77 posted on 08/11/2004 7:05:30 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch (I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it)
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To: fooman
The issue I have is Kerry is full of crap, as was Clinton, but some say Clinton had the charisma to pull it off, there is no way Kerry does...on his on, but if the media refuses to cover the truth and purposely poses one Image who knows what they can accomplish. I am encouraged however by the ems recent freak outs over the Cambodia/swift boat issues.
78 posted on 08/11/2004 7:05:32 AM PDT by Conservative_boy_in_Bangkok (DNC- "We have made a clone. We shall call him Minnie Dukakis")
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To: N. Theknow
Hey! Where's my hat?

Wardrobe malfunction.

79 posted on 08/11/2004 7:05:34 AM PDT by michigander (The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
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To: Geezerette
It is getting to the point where Kerry has NO CREDABILITY, and his pendants are resorting to blaming the messenger because they can't defend Kerry's lies.

After the Rep Convention the Reps will get a 10 point or so bounce that Kerry will not be able to counter. I hope that Kerry burns in Hell for what he did to Vets, and what he did to America.

Kerry's picture hangs in a Communist museum as a shrine to Kerry for assisting in the defeat of America in Vietnam. Kerry is a traitor to America and needs to be exposed.

What a DUFASS Kerry is for making his Vietnam experience the cornerstone of his candidacy for President. But with such a dismal Senate record I guess he had no choice.

The DummyRats picked a winner didn't they, but I guess he is the best that they have. What LOOSERS!

80 posted on 08/11/2004 7:07:11 AM PDT by Viet-Boat-Rider (KERRY IS A NARCISSISTIC LIAR, GOLDBRICKER, AND TRAITOR!)
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