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.
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.
What other dates would he remember the "Sugar Plum Fairy"?
Sauran's tower is beginning to crumble.
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.
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."
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..
somebody check to see if Kerry visited Cambodia as a senator.
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.
It was a navigational error! Yeah, that't the ticket!
I am against secession. Any talk like that is foolish.
Has anyone noticed that when Kerry gets caught in one of his lies the media switches to Scott Peterson.
Bump
These people are as bad at parsing words as the Clintons.
mara liasson onthe brit hume show said as much the other day
Wardrobe malfunction.
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!
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