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.
And that was the 'in too big a hurry to edit HTML effect'...
;-)
"I lied before deciding this is really a revision."
The only SEALs I ever heard of going into Cambodia went in native garb in onesies or twosies with Asian team members, in native sampans. Not a coastal patrol craft (ocean coasts and major rivers) like a 50 foot Swift boat!
His story is like a C-130 pilot claiming to have flown CIA agents into East Germany in the Cold War. A Piper Cub I might believe, but not a C-130 Hercules, not into East Germany! Same thing with Kerry's asinine story of taking a Swift boat into Cambodia.
Anyway, Kerry was just the skipper, there were five other enlisted crew on a Swift. Where are the crewmen who will back up his story? There are none.
"I've looked at life from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall..."
I really don't know Cambodia at all...
There you go--perhaps Kerry could just downgrade the word 'seared' to 'lightly roasted' or 'sauteed'. You know CBSNBCABCCNNNPRNYTLAT will buy it.
I'd say about 19.4 percent. Most of the black vote (my best man is black and he gave the maximum $2,000 to the Bush campaign), commies anywhere in U.S., left wing media, illegal immigrants brought into U.S. by Clinton-Gore for 1996 election, radical homosexuals and feminists, baby-killers (oops, I mean abortion doctors), almost all bearded college professors, Communist Party of the USA (check out their website at cpusa.org for a Kerry commercial), Hollywood types except those rare ones with an IQ above 80, Larry Flynt, Howard Stern, pedophiles, etc. It's quite a coalition, exactly what Kerry could build against a terrorist nation. Know a man by who his friends are.
John Kerry wrote his Review for "Apocalypse Now" on Oct 14, 1979 in the Boston Herald.Here is the article in JPG format.
Thank you, thank you FreeRepublic.com !
In the BOTTOM JPG, check out the TOP RIGHT paragraph regarding Cambodia .....
"I, 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 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."
There is the lie. He NEVER WAS in Cambodia. The Swiftboat book Unfit for Command addresses that issue. And Nixon, who had WON election in November 1968, did not take office until January, 1969.
John Kerry is a LIAR! How could ANYONE vote for him? I say George Bush in a landslide win November 2nd !
Whoops, I should have included this part in the beginning of Kerry's quote:"On more than one occasion, ....."
Ask any Vietnam veteran, absolutely ANY Vietnam veteran where they were on Christmas eve and they will give you not only the exact location, but exactly what they did. It's like asking a person where they were on Sept 11, 2001. If Kerry said he was in Cambodia then he didn't just remember it wrong, HE LIED!!!!!! No ifs ands or buts.
"Ok, I meant sort of seared into me. Actually, I think I meant vaguely seared. Come to think of it, I meant, I think I recall a searing memory. Or was it, I seared my arm when I dropped my cigarette when I think I was in Cambodia? Yeah, that's the ticket... I seared my arm with a cigarette, got a purple heart, and I think I was talking about Cambodia with someone."
Are we clear now?
Yeah. I think that folks that are planning on voting for Kerry hate Bush more
than they like Kerry. For those voting DemocRAT this year, it's the "anybody
but Bush" platform .....
LOL!OR "Jean Keri goes to Mardi Gras" .....
The serial lying lunatic is digging Scambodia Gate deeper on each day.
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