Posted on 08/12/2004 5:27:37 PM PDT by hope
Thursday, August 12, 2004
Kerry camp: Candidate 'inaccurate' on Cambodia Says senator mistakenly thought it was Christmas trip when he crossed border
Posted: August 12, 2004
3:45 p.m. Eastern
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
Days after charges were first made public, John Kerry's campaign is beginning to respond to allegations the senator has lied for decades about being in Cambodia for Christmas in 1968, saying he was at or near the border but not actually in the country for the holiday.
As WorldNetDaily reported, the authors of the best-selling book "Unfit for Command," which refutes many of Kerry's war stories, claim that despite the senator's 1986 speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate mentioning spending Christmas Eve in Cambodia, the candidate was never in Vietnam's neighboring country.
"I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting in a gunboat in Cambodia," said Kerry on the Senate floor. "I remember what it was like to be shot at by Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and have the president of the United States tell the American people I was not there; the troops were not in Cambodia."
Kerry was referring to President Nixon, who was not sworn into office until 1969.
Fox News Channel's Major Garrett reported on "Special Report with Brit Hume" yesterday:
"The Kerry campaign has been forced to admit errors in statements Kerry made in a 1979 Boston Herald article, and in a 1986 Senate speech … about vivid memories of his leading a Swift Boat into Cambodia and taking enemy fire on Christmas Eve 1968."
Garrett's segment included responses from John Hurley, the national director of Veterans for Kerry.
"I don't know that anyone can actually say whether or not they were in Cambodia," Hurley said.
"[It is a] very watery area. It is – there's no sign that says welcome to Cambodia. It is – it is obviously dusk and getting darker, and so they were in those waters."
FNC reported Kerry's campaign also says he was in Cambodia on a different mission with Navy Seals, but can provide no date for that mission.
Stated Hurley: "He was five miles into Cambodia, but what's happened is these two stories have gotten confused."
Hurley says Kerry was simply mistaken about the date of his incursion.
"I think that he knows that he was under fire in Cambodia," he said. "I think the date is what's inaccurate, that it was just not Christmas Eve Day."
John O'Neill, co-author of "Unfit for Duty," is pleased Kerry's people are beginning to respond to his charge.
"I understand that he is beginning, at least, to admit that he was never in Cambodia, for example, at Christmastime," O'Neill told Fox. "Which was a complete lie that he told over and over and over again."
Kerry spent four months in Vietnam as skipper of a Swift Boat before returning to the U.S. and becoming a vocal leader of the anti-war movement.
"I smoked, but I didn't inhale"..
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman"...
"Depends on what the meaning of "is" is"..
"The memory was seared into my brain..."...
"I was near but not inside"...
"I did not appoint my boytoy to a position he was unqualified for"...
If a Democrats lips are moving, they are lying.
And he tried to tie it to President Nixon who hadn't even taken office yet.
Kerry isn't even smart enough to come up with plausible lies in his quest to be an anti-war war hero.
Whew!
For a while there I was afraid we would have another dem lying to his/her diary.
Kerry inaccurate on:
Cambodia
who was president
how he was injured
whether he was qualified for his medals
the facts regarding that life he saved
his reason for leaving Vietnam
his support for raising taxes
his support for the war in Iraq
his support for our troops
his support for financing the war
This guy might not have gravitas, but he may have gravel in the caboose. That's basicly just as good, when you're subliminal enough to settle for being a democrat.
This is easy to solve. Just ask Martin Sheen if he remembers John Kerry on his boat during the mission into Cambodia to terminate Marlon Brando. If Sheen remembers...well...I guess he's in the clear.
Hey...this is neat...
When the first LIE is proven to be a lie....wait until all the witnesses against you on that particular date have surfaced.....NEXT.....
Claim you "MADE A MISTAKE".....and had the WRONG DATE...
Now there wont be many if any witnesses against for THE NEW DATE....
Of the NEW LIE....
Bwahahahahaha.......those whose ears are so bent that they actually believe this schmuck...
deserve what they get.....
imo
Trying to follow x42 ("Clinton is an unusually good liar") is harder than effin Kerry ever thought. Kerry is a lousy liar...
From up and down, and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall...
Hey Kerry....If it wasnt on Christmas when was it? and why were the ARVNS celebrating?
Must have been a month or two later during TET.....right...
Only problem is...werent you GONE back to mommy by then?
Then he can consider running for office.
Every GI in the theater knew it was Christmas....even the military celebrates..by flying out hot chow...or lets you celebrate in some way...
Only the comotosed wouldnt know it was Christmas......
Well that could be a good alibi lie for ya.. right there....
You were comotosed at the time....
Just the thought of Kerry makes me puke.
And said Nixon was lying to the American public.
Usually liars go through a routine when caught. First they say, 'you got it wrong. I didn't say that.' Then, when that doesn't work, they say, 'uh, I misspoke. I made a mistake.' And if that fails, then, 'Gee, can't you take a joke? I was just kidding.' (At some point I expect Kerry to explain how his Cambodian adventure, plus his entire Vietnam experience was just a joke. As a matter of fact, his candidacy is a joke. His political career is a joke. TerAYsa thinks he's a laugh riot.( Not.) I guess she doesn't care for public humiliation.
The trouble with weasling out of this lie - is that it was "seared - seared" into his brain.
In principle I can imagine a person, any person, making a statement and then going back and correcting a date, or a time or a place. Not that they couldn't be lying, just that it's possible that they did have some detail wrong.
However, how does one get a detail wrong on something that is "seared - seared" into one's brain?
I mean there's lying and then there's lying - this dude is lying about his lying - it's starting to make my head hurt!
TerAYsa's upping her meds. Well, she's tired of this whole Vietnam thing. It's getting old. And embarrassing, and humiliating, and degrading.
Where was the shrew today? Still mad about the Grand Canyon? Still in separate hotel rooms?
Could Kerry do a commercial for SEARS?
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