[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?

[P-Marlowe]

make that "President Nixon claimed there were no American troops was very real.

[blackdog]

Proof that liberals dismissal of the need to know history is going to bite them in the arss. To claim presidential directives from a president who wasn't even in office at the time is priceless!

On NPR last week they had a talking head on claiming that conservatives place way too much stock in events and history of the past, that they are obsessed by it to the point of foolishness. He claimed that liberals are the only ones with hope and regard for our future, refusing to be governed by the past.