Veteran shares perspective on Kerry story [Cambodia redux]

The Augusta Free Press ^ | 08/19/04 | Doug Regelin

[Interesting Times]

The new version of Sen. John Kerry's Cambodia experience is also not true.

Sen. Kerry patrolled from An Thoi on the 94 boat and also from Cat Lo on the 44 boat. There was no way to enter Cambodia from the An Thoi patrol area. That patrol area started at the coastal fishing village of Ha Tien and ran parallel to the Cambodian border, but there was no way into Cambodia. Any good map will show this to be true.

From the Cat Lo patrol area around Sa Dec, it would have been possible for a boat to enter Cambodia, except there were concrete barriers, river-assault group boats and PBRs guarding the entrance.

Anyone entering Cambodia at that location would have known with complete certainty what they were doing.

It just never happened. Sen. Kerry is not being truthful, and it can be easily proven by interviewing his own selected band-of-brothers. The claim that there were so many rivers and canals, and that no one knew where they were, is ludicrous. We had detailed maps and overlays that showed everything right down to movements in fishing stakes.

I drove a swift boat for a year in 1969, and I still remember all the patrol areas.

Also, a single swift boat never went anywhere alone. It would have been way too dangerous. A second cover boat would have gone along. That means the crew of that boat would have also known they were going into Cambodia. Where are the crew members and officer of the cover boat?

Again, it just didn't happen.

Why has the old media let this slide? Sen. Kerry will say anything if it suits his personal political agenda. His Cambodia lie is just like his atrocity lie when he came back. They served his political purpose when he said them, but neither is true.

I'm not a member of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which can be verified. I also will not vote for either Bush or Kerry because I'm anti-war. I don't think we should be in Iraq. However, I am for the truth.

[Interesting Times]

No Cambodia. No how. No way.

[Interesting Times]

This is just the sort of thing that keeps Douglas Brinkley awake at night...

[Steven W.]

you are right and one of the most compelling witnesses because he is opposed to Bush on Iraq.

[kellynla]

From the Cat Lo patrol area around Sa Dec, it would have been possible for a boat to enter Cambodia, except there were concrete barriers, river-assault group boats and PBRs guarding the entrance

[The Mayor]

it never ends....

I'm posting on a Buffalo forum right now.
The question is "who will you vote for?"

3 for kerry so far, I love stirring up the pot over there..

[Jewels1091]

Send this to Rush and hannity!! The more these "little white lies" get out the better...the snowball is starting down the hill, it's up to us to get these truths to public people so that snowball can start racing and getting bigger until it smashes kerry at the bottom...

[Smartass]

"This is just the sort of thing that keeps Douglas Brinkley awake at night..."

I would bet, this is what's keeping "Hanoi John" awake at night!!!

[NW Baptist]

Liberals are voting for Kerry, liar or not. Specifically, they are voting against Bush, not FOR Kerry. Ignorance abhors truth.

[NavySEAL F-16]

I read on another thread that Brinkley has been hired as an NBC analyst.

One way to shut him up.

[potlatch]

[Sen. Kerry will say anything if it suits his personal political agenda]

Didn't take us long to find that out!! Thanks for the ping I.T.

[abner]

This guy MUST be paid by the Republican attack machine....

[zot]

Excellent testimony by one who knows. And more credible because he isn't politically motivated. Thanks for posting it.

[soozla]

"It just never happened. Sen. Kerry is not being truthful, and it can be easily proven by interviewing his own selected band-of-brothers"

It's my understanding that Kerry is REFUSING to allow interviews of his "band of brothers"............any information on the "service record" is screwed, glued and tatooed by the Kerry Interview fascists!! Scarborough was refused an interview tonight for his show on MSNBC and I believe Hannity was stood up this PM on his radio show.......Kerry campaign said first they would send someone, then they didn't and no one showed up.......they are in a huddle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[RightthinkinAmerican]

I just watched a surprisingly fair - mind you, not nearly 100% fair, but unusually fair - piece on Nightline about the Swifty controversy. While it was laced with doubts about the swifties, it wasn't the usual story. I feel that in an effort not to appear blatantly biased to the (dumb)masses (they are obviously so already to us), they see the story gaining steam, and are slowly moving to the middle, as the Rats desperate attempts at squelching/muddling the controversy fail.

[TigersEye]

Interview on streaming audio with Steve Gardner (served in the same boat with Fn) here. Very good. Has declassified sit-reps.

[dead]

The claim that there were so many rivers and canals, and that no one knew where they were, is ludicrous. We had detailed maps and overlays that showed everything right down to movements in fishing stakes.

How dare you question John Kerry's ability to not know where the f#*k he is!!

[MEG33]

Kerry's accusations against the Bush campaign just make this bigger...It causes controversy so it will get more attention..GOOD!..

Finally someone is noticing that Kerry is spinning fantasy...

[kellynla]

This is just the sort of thing that keeps Douglas Brinkley awake at night...

Lack of credibility hasn't slowed down the lefties yet...
Rather, Jennings, the other Brinkley, the lying traitor Kerry, Klintoon, the draft dodger and his hanger-on wife till she got her own job, Clark Bar, Michael Moron, the Kennedys...any of them, Jimmy Carter, Al Bore...
and one of my all time favs Gray "Dimwit" Davis...
I could go on all night...
"Credibility", heck liberals don't even know how to spell it! LMAO

[RightthinkinAmerican]

Also, our local tv station (WCHS) did a halfway fair analysis tonight. They made sure to leave a few easily refuted RAT claims untouched, of course, but quoted former local Swifty turned Texan (Chenoweth?, I think) in his charges. Of course, like all mainstream media, they made the point that it's paid for by a Texas fatcat "linked" to Bush. No mention of Soros and his ties to the RATs.

[The Mayor]

I have so far talked at least a dozen people from Buffalo out of voting for kerry and for President Bush.

They need to be educated, I wish I got paid to do this, I could get more.