somewhere... Dick Nixon is laughing!!!
Posted on 08/12/2004 7:13:16 PM PDT by wagglebee
**Exclusive**
TOUR OF DUTY author and John Kerry historian Doug Brinkley is rushing a piece for the NEW YORKER: to set-the-record-straight on Kerry's Christmas in Cambodia tale, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
Kerry has turned to author Brinkley for a "modification" after it was exposed that Kerry was not in Cambodia during Christmas of 1968, as he once claimed from the Senate floor.
The Brinkley piece for the NEW YORKER will now say that Kerry was not in Cambodia during Christmas, but rather in January, publishing sources tell DRUDGE.
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Since the early 1970s, Kerry has spoken and written of how he was illegally ordered to enter Cambodia. Kerry mentioned it in the floor of the Senate in 1986 when he charged that President Reagan’s actions in Central America were leading the U.S. in another Vietnam. Here’s what he said as excerpted from the new book, UNFIT FOR COMMAND:
"I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by the Vietnamese and Khmer 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."
John O’Neil’s, author of UNFIT FOR COMMAND, comments on the “clarification:”
“John Kerry describes Christmas Eve in Cambodia as a critical turning point in his life. We now know that his story is completely false. My question is how many people do you know have invented a turning point, one that is seared in his memory? While it makes sense for John Kerry to come clean about the Cambodia story, it is one of several tales that the Kerry campaign will have to face and clarify.”
“By claiming we were engaged in a war crime and crossing international borders, John Kerry damaged the credibility of all the commanding officers above him and insulted the sailors who served with him,” said John O’Neill, member of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.”
Developing...
---I posted the same thing 32 seconds after you! I guess the South Vietnamese were shooting to celebrate Martin Luther King day in January.---
Lunar New Year is in late January or early February.
One comes to mind, though I thankfully don't "know" him; he recalls the razing of black churches by crazed bigots while he was growing up in Arkansas. Kerry is no different than the Clintons/algore, they make up whatever fits the situation and think we are all too stupid to figure it out. And apparently, they are right about almost 1/2 of us.
How did he run the gauntlet of ships--LCU and PBRs--blocking the border? If Kerry tries to pull this off, it shows that he is a sociopath. He is mentally ill. Will his crew testify to it? Will his superiors and the other boats since he didn't operate independently?. This will bring a ton of scrutiny if he tries to change it.
Excellent question
How does one get the logs though??
Ok. When you cross the International Date Line going west, December is actually January because they are ahead of us.
[Will that spin? Try it on the morning news shows.]
WHEN WILL THE MEDIA START INTERVIEWING KERRY'S "CREWMATES" ABOUT ALL THIS STUFF?
somewhere... Dick Nixon is laughing!!!
And we could find out how ?(assuming it wasn't a classified top-secret joint CIA / SEALS mission)
This is a hoot, it is '68 and kerry still has NFG stenciled on all of his uniforms and laundry bags, hanging out at the PX (Exchange) buying all of the really cool ribbons, he is a jg, in training to lead 5 or 6 guys... CIA sees this stellar individual that has proved himself so many times sneaks him off for a super secret mission dreamt up and personally planned by President Nixon just hours into his Presidency (it was January, since Christmas comes later in Viet Nam) and this CIA guy feels sorry for the jg and gives him a hat that doesn't have NFG stenciled on it (which kerry will forever carry in his briefcase as his lucky hat)
I feel like I am in the twilight zone, the carnival music is playing, now kerry is reporting for duty the clown to his left is Ter RAH za the midget on his right is edwards suddenly the music changes to the Rocky theme... getting louder and louder. Everyone looks to the left and there coming out of the dressing room is CNN, ABC, NBC, NPR, MSNBC all led by Lanny ...
and the crowd goes WILD
All I have to say is, before I wake up I'm gonna sell a boat load of tasty exotic treats on a stick, cause these folks will buy anything.
Do we want to start a betting pool on how long his webmaster is going to stay on board. Tick tick tick .....
They might be. This is from Kerry's own war history....
January 22, 1969 – Kerry and other Swift boat commanders travel to Saigon for meeting with Adm. Elmo Zumwalt, Commander Naval Forces Vietnam (COMNAVFORV), and Gen. Creighton Abrams, Commander United States Military Assistance Command Vietnam (COMUSMACV).
Late January, 1969 – Kerry joined his 5 man crew on PCF-94.
Looks bad for him to try and pin it on Nixon.
Just a thought, perhaps he keeps his "band of brothers" with him 24x7 so they can keep their stories together.
I read Kerry's campaign schedule for the week ahead. He's taking Sunday and Monday off. That's how long it's going to take him to straighten out all his lies.
His handlers must be scrambling like hamsters on a wheel!
His shipmates came to him and said they couldn't lie for him; they were with him on Christmas and never went to Cambodia.
That's why they're IMO shifting the date to January. He was probably away from the boat then and can say he slipped away to his secret mission without his buddies knowing.
ROTFLOL!
That's his tactic. Confuse the voters so much that our minds go numb. Nice try Kerry, but it won't work!
We coud ask Elliott, his CO, if this was ever the case or ADM Hoffmann. Kerry wasn't a free agent. He just couldn't take his boat and crew and go on a secret mission without his boss knowing. It just doesn't work that way.
Do you think for one moment that the Clintons didn't look at that file?
If Sandy Berger can do what he did, surely it's not impossible to either copy them and/or edit them.
Clinton will drop the bomb on them by leaking the 1st set of lies on record in the 70's.
I always confuse January with Christmas.
Don't forget, Brinkley, to make it after the dreaded Nixon's inauguration since that was a key element of the Cambodian Fairy Tale.
Make sure to say that the very FIRST thing Tricky Dick did was to order illegal covert operations into Cambodia and LIE about it to the American People.
(Just don't be surprised when the Swift Vets can account for Kerry being amongst their number in Vietnam, not Cambodia, in January, too)
Ha!!!
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