JANUARY -- NOT CHRISTMAS -- KERRY IN CAMBODIA (More Flip-Flop Spin!)

Drudge Report ^ | 8/12/04 | Matt Drudge

[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.”

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[NonValueAdded]

Kerry, sign the 180, release your log books, release ALL of the records. Maybe they will jog your memory.

[Prost1]

"Seared in my memory, seared!"

Absurd, absurd!
Liar! Liar! Liar!
You mislead us! Mislead us! Mislead us!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

This is bunk. One does not forget where you spent important days of your life.
I remember exactly where I was every Christmas since 1950.
Haloweens, birthdays, men first walking on the moon, ect. One just does not forget these things.

[WoodstockCat]

I think he's counting on Elliot not to be drawn into public interviews on this..

[rogue yam]

Further, Kerry clarified that his Cambodia experience was not "seared" in his memory but rather was "lightly braised" there.

[conservative in nyc]

Guess which month's after action reports are not on Kerry's website?

January. Coincidence?

Were the records for his first Swift Boat ever released?

[Viet-Boat-Rider]

This is IMPORTANT! Kerry lied for 30 years about the Cambodia thing. WHY? Because Kerry was trying to make America loose the war in Vietnam with the Communists. Kerry wanted the Commonest to win, so he made up lies and told them to the American people (and the Congress).

Kerry is a traitor to America and I hope, I PRAY, that he gets exposed. It is also my most ardent hope that Kerry rots in hell for causing honorable Veterans to suffer pain and social ridicule, not to mention the suffering that he caused our POW's, because of his lies and coordinated efforts with the Communists.

[wagglebee]

"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."

And he always was given a pass on his slam of Nixon, who was nothing more than the president-elect at the time.

[avital2]

yes, they realize that this story has legs. but how nice of them to keep it alive another month or so by introducing new material. hopefully by then someone will have the log info on our side.

[Libloather]

This morning, I saw some Effin' Kerry mouthpiece spewing something about the date being wrong - but even Effin' Kerry DOES ADMIT he was five miles into Cambodia with some secret CIA dude.

The lies continue...

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

In the legal profession, in a situation such as this, aren't his words spoken closer to the actual event considered the most accurate? Especially when repeated over & over again?

[toupsie]

Next thing you know, it will be Arbor Day in Cambodia...

[InvisibleChurch]

Bulls**t, he was never in Cambodia and they know it.

of course he was in cambodia in january ... he knows because it was snowing

[MarkeyD]

Cinco de Mayo?

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

LOL!!!!!

[mylife]

Kerry just keeps punching and kicking those tarbabies doent he? L0L

[yatros from flatwater]

No, don't you get it he's had an epiphany, he was "over there" on Jan. 6 or one of those other 12 days.

[AaronInCarolina]

The way to tell whether the new version that was "seared" into Kerry's memory is ALSO a bald-faced lie, is what kind of boat he claimed to have used. If he still claims a Swift Boat, that's also a lie. The Navy only used PBRs (much smaller and lighter than Swifts).

Great points! He's just digging his hole deeper and deeper with every desperate lie trying to cover the previous lie. I also hear that the Swift boats were incredibly loud, so much so that it made the occupants particularly exposed to ambushes from the river shores. There is no way that they would have used Swift Boats, and almost certainly wouldn't have use a Junior Grade Lieutenant with a matter of weeks worth of experience to handle a top-secret covert operation.

[stockpirate]

Cambodia is Budest. They don't do Christmas anytime of the year.

[MindBender26]

This is complete BS, because Kerry linked it to a truce... and they didn't call a truce for Greek Orthodox Epiphany Day.... or any other holiday in January!!!!

IT'S ALL BRAVO SIERRA!!!!!!!!