[Billthedrill]

This isn't a case of mistaken navigation, although as a Swift boat commander that would have been a mast offense itself had it really resulted in the inadvertent crossing of an international border - commanders of naval units are supposed to know where they are, you know, it's considered a kind of important part of the job. But this wasn't that. This was a deliberate false accusation in an attempt to smear a man who wasn't yet president at the time, at a later time when the omission wouldn't be noticed - as it was not.

This isn't a fond war memory gone wrong. It's a politically motivated lie that was found out.

[bagman]

When this story first popped up a day or two ago, I read somewhere (probably on the FreeRepublic) that several boats had inadvertently strayed into Cambodia earlier. To prevent a recurrence, several boats were posted at the border, and concrete pilings were driven into the river bed.

Therefore, Kerry could not have been in Cambodia as a result of a navigational error.

The only alternative to rescue this story is to be on a secret mission with the CIA (yeah, the CIA, that's the ticket - the yahoos will fall for that one!)