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Kerry's Latest Flip-Flop, Cambodia -- Did He Lie to the U.S. Senate?
Human Events Online ^ | Aug 11, 2004 | Human Events Online

Posted on 08/11/2004 6:45:03 PM PDT by Jeff Blogworthy

Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry has waffled again, this time on his own recollections of a supposed mission to Cambodia on Christmas of 1968.

On the Senate floor on March 27, 1986 (Congressional Record, page S3594), Sen. Kerry said:

I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what is was like to be shot at by Vietnamese and Khme Rouge and Cambodians, and have the President of the United States telling the American people that I was not there; The troops were not in Cambodia…I have that memory which is seared--seared--in me....

In an October 14, 1979, letter to the Boston Herald, Sen. Kerry wrote of his vivid memories of his Christmas Eve spent in Cambodia (quoted in Unfit for Command, page 46):

I remember spending Christmas Eve of 1968 five miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our South Vietnamese allies who were drunk and celebrating Christmas. The absurdity of almost being killed by our own allies in a country in which President Nixon claimed there were no American troops was very real.

But today, on Fox News' "Fox and Friends," Kerry Campaign Advisor Jeh Johnson had this to say to the show's co-host Brian Kilmeade:

JOHNSON: 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 recorded to say it was some place on a river near Cambodia and he is certain that at some point subsequent to that he was in Cambodia. My understanding is that he is not certain about that date.

KILMEADE: I think the term was he had a searing memory of spending Christmas - back in 1986 in the senate floor in Cambodia.

JOHNSON: I believe he has corrected the record to say it was some place near Cambodia he is not certain whether it was in Cambodia but he is certain there was some point subsequent to that that he was in Cambodia.


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To: Jeff Blogworthy

I think that someone should start a contest, with the prize going to that person who can identify a position that Senator Kerry kept consistently during his 20 years in the Senate.


21 posted on 08/11/2004 6:58:55 PM PDT by jackbill
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To: independentthinker1

8/11/04. Hmmm.


23 posted on 08/11/2004 6:59:06 PM PDT by canalabamian (Common sense, unfortunately, is not very common)
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To: Jeff Blogworthy

24 posted on 08/11/2004 6:59:31 PM PDT by Mike Bates (Did I mention I'm peddling a book?)
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To: Jeff Blogworthy
Here's what stuck out for me: I remember spending Christmas Eve of 1968 five miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our South Vietnamese allies who were drunk and celebrating Christmas

Didn't know most Asians, Buddhists, celebrated Christmas. He might've been in Cambodia at some point, and he might've had South VN shooting at him on Christmas.. but I don't think it's the same day. At best, he cobbled one story out of two events due to faulty memory.

25 posted on 08/11/2004 6:59:50 PM PDT by Terabitten (Father, grant me the strength to live a life worthy of those who came before me...)
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To: fhayek
Turns out he was near Cambodia near to the time when Nixon became president.

That's his story. Turns out he's a lying phony SOB, pure and simple. A con man extra-ordinaire. A legend in history.

26 posted on 08/11/2004 7:00:17 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: independentthinker1
I see valid points to both sides.

How nuanced of you.

27 posted on 08/11/2004 7:00:18 PM PDT by Maceman (Too nuanced for a bumper sticker)
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To: jackbill

Uhhh..that would be "upright" position.....barely!!!!!! ;^)


28 posted on 08/11/2004 7:00:43 PM PDT by soozla (BUSH CHENEY 2004)
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To: Jeff Blogworthy
I remember spending Christmas Eve of 1968 five miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our South Vietnamese allies who were drunk and celebrating Christmas. The absurdity of almost being killed by our own allies in a country in which President Nixon claimed there were no American troops was very real.

Why doesn't somebody point out the simple fact that Richard Nixon was NOT President on Christmas 1968!

He was elected in Nov. 1968, took office in January, 1969.

29 posted on 08/11/2004 7:01:17 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: independentthinker1

So you're accusing all National Guard members of being war dodgers? That they serve no useful purpose? Come on...spit it out.


30 posted on 08/11/2004 7:01:49 PM PDT by tsmith130 (Making one's enemies suffer is currently an under-valued activity.)
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To: Jeff Blogworthy

"country in which President Nixon claimed there were no American troops"

WHAT! Nixon did not become President until 1969. Christmas 1968 was Lyndon Johnson.


31 posted on 08/11/2004 7:03:50 PM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: fhayek
How can you have mistaken "searing" recollections?

Do you recall the plot of "Apocalypse Now"?
Five miles across the border.
Christmas.
Secret missions.

This story first came out of Kerry's brain in 1979, the year Apocalypse Now" was released.

Drugs can have a "searing" effect sometimes.

32 posted on 08/11/2004 7:04:56 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: tomnbeverly
This guy needs a physcological exam...

There must be some enterprising psychologists out there who read FR who can explain what the syndrome is that Kerry is living with? Any help would be appreciated so that I may better understand his lies......

33 posted on 08/11/2004 7:05:43 PM PDT by eeriegeno
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To: Maceman

Nuance,, isn't that a province of FRance? It's capital is Troll. ;-)


34 posted on 08/11/2004 7:06:13 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi .. Proud member of the FR Special Ops manuremovers crew .. moving manure&opinion since '96)
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To: independentthinker1
everytime they tell me about there war stories things tend to change, so thats not that big a deal

There is change in telling details of a story, and there is lying. Your guy, Kerry, is a liar. He makes up stories from thin air. I think you are a liar too.

35 posted on 08/11/2004 7:07:22 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: eeriegeno

Personality Separation Disorder. He actually believes these events happened.


36 posted on 08/11/2004 7:08:00 PM PDT by tobyhill (The war on terrorism is not for the weak!)
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To: independentthinker1
I have many family members who were in every war this country ever fought and everytime they tell me about there war stories things tend to change, so thats not that big a deal.

Like what freakin country they were in???? Give me a break, newbie.

37 posted on 08/11/2004 7:09:31 PM PDT by MamaLucci (Libs, want answers on 911? Ask Clinton why he met with Monica more than with his CIA director.)
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To: independentthinker1
I would still prefer it if Bush didn't dodge the war that is to me the same as cowardice.

The truth about Bush and the Air National Guard

independentthinker1 - Since Aug 11, 2004

Back to your cave Troll

38 posted on 08/11/2004 7:09:43 PM PDT by tx_eggman (Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society - Mark Twain)
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To: Mike Bates; Jeff Blogworthy
Scambodia........... Teraaaaaaaayza and Effin fighting on the road on Drudge.

Teraaaaayza: ""I could have bought you Cambodia, if you had just kept your damned mouth shut."

39 posted on 08/11/2004 7:10:55 PM PDT by beyond the sea (Free Martha Mitchell......... and Jail Teraaaaaayza)
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To: independentthinker1
independentthinker1 Since Aug 11, 2004

TROLL ALERT........

40 posted on 08/11/2004 7:11:01 PM PDT by ExSES
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