Kerry damage control on Cambodia story: (Kerryites) now say trip in Jan '69, not Christmas '68

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Saturday, August 14, 2004

[P-Marlowe]

Did he not say the enemy was drunk and celebrating Christmas,so what were they celebrating?

Martin Luther King's Birthday.

Of course that would still make LBJ president, but at least it would move it to January.

[claudiustg]

Would you believe Tet?

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Actually, his wife was Morgan Fairchild, who he's seen naked. ;^)

[Sapper26]

Hugh Hewitt posted some significant legal analysis about Brinkley's position: in summary the guy is now totally compromised, exposed as either a fool who didn't cross check his work or, worse, a fraud who helped perpetuate the myths of Kerry.


Brinkley's a reporter with the Boston Globe(?), right? Isn't that paper owned by the NYT? If so, this guy's future is set.

[Watery Tart]

Heath--Morgan Fairchild! Yeah, that's the ticket! ;o)

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

"I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting in a gunboat in Cambodia," said Kerry on the Senate floor. "I have the memory which is seared – seared – in me. … "

[igoramus987]

Historian's 'Duty': PR for Kerry?
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2004/04/29/historians_duty_pr_for_kerry/
By Alex Beam, Globe Columnist | April 29, 2004

What kind of a historian is Douglas Brinkley anyway?

These days Brinkley is acting a lot less like a historian and a lot more like a PR flack for John Kerry, the subject of Brinkley's flattering bestseller "Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War." Brinkley proclaims his independence from the Kerry campaign -- "This is my book, not his," he writes in "Tour" -- but he's become a major player in the Kerry agitprop machine.

[igoramus987]

from link
Kerry 'invented Christmas in Cambodia claim'
By David Rennie in Washington
(Filed: 12/08/2004)

In newspaper articles, interviews and at least one Senate speech, Mr Kerry has claimed that he spent Christmas 1968 inside Cambodia, at a time when even the US president was publicly denying that American forces were inside that country.
He has cited the missions as a psychological turning point, when he realised that American leaders were not telling the truth to the world about the war in south-east Asia.

from link
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. As recently as July 7, 2004, Michael Kranish of the Boston Globe repeated Kerry's Christmas in Cambodia story on FOX News Channel's Hannity & Colmes, indicating that it was a critical turning point in Kerry's life. Kranish had no knowledge, even after his extensive study of Kerry, that he was simply repeating a total fabrication by Kerry. And Kranish was right: Study of the Christmas in Cambodia story is central to understanding John Kerry.

[claudiustg]

I'm not sure I believe that this is going to come out in the New Yorker, not that they're not capable of it. If Kerry's public image collapses Brinkley has no place to hide. It's just hard to believe that the people around Kerry would be so stupid as to change the story when they need to change the subject.

[Kozak]

Well, that's because it's a little known fact that Kerry was celebrating Orthodox Christmas, so that makes it January 6 for Christmas eve.



Yeah, that's the ticket!

[dread78645]

Did he not say the enemy was drunk and celebrating Christmas,so what were they celebrating?

Tet Nguyen Dan (Holiday of the first season) familiarly known as just "Tet".

[Graymatter]

Kerry is seared.

[kittymyrib]

When you have a lying candidate and his paid lying historian amending the stories on a daily basis, it's hard to keep up. Did they actually think everyone who lived through the Viet Nam era is brain dead?

[Jan Hus]

It's my recollection that Tet was in Feb of 69.The VC celebrated the anniversary of the 68 Tet offensive with a sapper attacks on Long Binh and Dong Tam in 69.Kerry's butt boys are going to have to move his Cambodia adventure again back to Feb 69. FWIW, if there were any ops in Cambodia in 69 they would have been out of Moc Hoa or Tan Chau.Recall at the time around Apr in 69 a "MIKE" attached with the "Benewah" strayed over the line into Cambodia and crew were detained by Cambodia (Sihanouk)Gov't for couple of Months.Crew of LCM had became disoriented and went up-river after session on Beer Barge tied up to Benewah.Crew were released after some diplomatic negotiations.Caused big incident at time.Also, crew got court martialed.

[oblomov]

...and don't forget to pack a wife...

[edwin hubble]

Ok January 69 not December 68...

But he still wasn't sent by Nixon.

He still wasn't in "an area between Viet Nam and Cambodia" (There isn't any)

He still wasn't in a part of the Mekong River that forms a border between the two countries. (There isn't any such place).

So they have more lying to do.

[dancusa]

Weekend in Cambodia--- Dead Kennedy's.

how apropos

[smonk]

if you think about it, the Cambodia angle is fairly important to his later assertions of war crimes and violations of international law. if he wasn't in Cambodia, then the administration (and ain't it convenient that a republican was president by January) committed no malfeasance.

this guy is *still* spinning his story.

[mondoman]

When this broke yesterday, I began to think: With only 4 months in theater, couldn't we put together a Kerry Swift Boat time-line that shows these transparent lies & inconsistencies?

[Condor51]

Bingo, we have a WINNER:

"the Khmer Rouge didn't take the field until the Easter Offensive of 1972."