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 just cannot keep it all straight.
May 4th
This might work. A lot of people leave their trees and decorations up until January or February. He could have just been confused.
Brinkley is not helping Kerry with all these revisions
Kerry STILL needs to release ALL of his records to prove it
Now he is lieing again to try and cover his ass.
Oh ... and Kerry needs to release his Journals too!
I don't believe this story. Nobody can be that stupid. At some point they would forget how to breath.
Yeah, I read that review this afternoon. The only problem is Martin Sheen is an actor and Apocalyspse Now is a movie….
What a buffoon
The battle of Khe Sanh (Jan. 21, 1968) was the prelude to the Tet Offensive of January 31, 1968.
Actually, Kerry stated "I went to SEARS to get rid of the memory".
ROFLMAO!
Wouldn't the boat's logs still be available?
Tet 1969 at Cu Chi
One year after the infamous Tet Offensive of 1968, Communist forces tried it again.
By Kevin D. Randle
The American command in Vietnam had predicted the attacks for months -- believing at first that they would start at the end of the summer of 1968, then around the time of the presidential election in November, and finally about the time of Richard Nixon's inauguration -- but the NVA and the VC remained relatively quiet throughout that period. In spite of a conditional Tet truce unilaterally declared by the Communists, many in the U.S. and ARVN commands thought there would be a reprise of the attacks that had occurred all over South Vietnam in 1968, but the 1969 Tet passed with little additional activity. It was during the week after Tet that the Communists struck, launching attacks against 115 cities and military bases.
On March 10, 1969, Newsweek reported: "At Cu Chi, the headquarters of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division (Mechanized) some 20 miles northwest of Saigon, enemy sapper squads slipped undetected through the barbed-wire perimeter in the middle of the night and ranged up and down the airstrip planting their explosives. Before they were driven off, they totally destroyed nine giant Chinook helicopters and badly damaged four others. And despite the heavy damage inflicted, some U.S. officers believed that the Cu Chi attack was nothing more than a diversion -- a maneuver designed to keep the 25th Division occupied while large enemy forces slipped past the base and moved toward Saigon."
He and Scott Peterson.
BINGO !!
Also note .. Everyone BUT KERRY has spoken out about this
HEY SEN KERRY ... WHY ARE YOU HIDING?????
Augufeb or Decuary
Kerry will claim he mistook the Internation Dateline for the International Monthline.
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