Kerry "Corrects Record," "Seared" Memory of Christmas in Cambodia Now "Mistaken Recollection"

Wednesday, August 11, 2004 | Kristinn

[mystery-ak]

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.

[tobyhill]

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

[fooman]

The issue I have is that 'Seared' is equivalent to a Categorical statement. Where is Dee Dee?

[tbpiper]

Sauran's tower is beginning to crumble.

[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.

[Pharlap]

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."

[Poincare]

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..

[Callahan]

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

[wai-ming]

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.

[bondjamesbond]

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

[kristinn]

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

[tobyhill]

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

[Carolinamom]

"Near Cambodia" = 55 miles.

[kingattax]

Bump

[BunnySlippers]

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

[HenryLeeII]

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?

[InvisibleChurch]

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

[Conservative_boy_in_Bangkok]

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.

[michigander]

Hey! Where's my hat?

Wardrobe malfunction.

[Viet-Boat-Rider]

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!