[handy]

Sure would like to see a reprint (readable) of the scanned article. :-)

[Dr. Eckleburg]

If the truth of Kerry's Manchurian Candidacy doesn't get out to the American public, the fix is in and Kerry is President.

He's been a programmed zombie for decades. There's a reason he took a film camera and a typewriter to Viet Nam and there's a reason he likens himself to Martin Sheen.

They're both actors.

[pepperhead]

Wow another thing O'Reilly and the rest of the enablers will not report.

[Nascar Dad]

I actually was near Cambodia, before I was in it.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Did Kerry enjoy the USO show with the Playboy Bunnies?

[Political Junkie Too]

Are there videos of Kerry surfing during a firefight?

-PJ

[7.62 x 51mm]

I couldn't read that if my life depended on it. I'd have to make it up as I go...

[parcel_of_rogues]

LOL- the speech he's giving (which you can read on Area51's locked thread) is actually about the Contras--and he's trying to explain why he's voting for the Contras before voting against them!!!

[maggief]

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

ohn 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.

[areafiftyone]

[New Perspective]

[sergeantdave]

Kerry's Vietnam war years will be on the big screen in a movie titled "Apoplexy Now!"

[TLI]

Geeze ya think the Dims are wishing this clown never happened?

[sphinx]

Please forgive if someone else has already asked/answered this; I scanned quickly and perhaps overlooked something.

Apocalypse Now was released in 1979. Is Kerry on record claiming Cambodian adventures prior to that date?

It wouldn't change the core fabrication, but it would make some slight difference in atmospherics if he made the story up independently, as opposed to seizing on a major movie target of opportunity.

[New Perspective]

[P-Marlowe]

...Like Martin Sheen in "Apocalypse Now" took my patrol boat into Cambodia. In fact, I remember spending Christmas Eve of 1968 five miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our South Vientnamese allies who were drunk and celebrating Christmas. The absurdity of almost being killed by our own allies in a country in which President Nixon [denied] there were any American troops (illegible)...

So it is clear that Kerry remembered being ordered into Cambodia on a secret mission by Richard Nixon at least one month before he was elected President. Secret mission indeed. Who would have thought that Nixon was calling the shots before he was inaugurated?

[New Perspective]

[Poohbah]

So Kerry's Vietnam experience was like Apocalypse Now, only it was more so.

Francis Ford Coppola's movie: Apocalypse Now.

Kerry's presidential campaign: A Crock o' S**t Now

[Sender]

Don't forget the immortal Dead Kennedys immortal rendition of "Holiday in Cambodia" from Kerry's era.

[Mikey_1962]

Vietmanese celebrating Christmas???