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Veteran shares perspective on Kerry story [Cambodia redux]
The Augusta Free Press ^ | 08/19/04 | Doug Regelin

Posted on 08/19/2004 8:48:10 PM PDT by 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.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: Interesting Times

Found this site by a Swift Boat guy that shows Sa Dec. Interesting stuff...

http://www.pcf45.com/sealords/sadec/sadec.html

Ha Tien, from what I've been able to find, is right on the border with Cambodia. The waterway defines the separation between Vietnam and Cambodia. It is little more than a canal. Also, it doesn't go into Cambodia. Seems strange to send a Swift Boat into that small canal just to have it beach itself on the other side. The mysterious hatless CIA guy could have swam across it in five minutes and have been on the other bank, and certainly attract less attention than Kerry and his 50 feet of Swift Boat.

Kerry's lies are catching up with him.


41 posted on 08/19/2004 10:25:37 PM PDT by bootyist-monk (<--------------------- Republican Attack Machine)
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To: Congressman Billybob; Interesting Times; kellynla; Chad Fairbanks; onyx; potlatch; ntnychik; ...
This post nails down the falsity of Kerry's "Christmas in Shambodia" claim, even as it shifts.

Shambodia was a black op--the only agent with a need to know was. . .Shambo. . . .


42 posted on 08/19/2004 10:27:40 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: PhilDragoo

Well, I'm sitting here wondering what I can post to that and all I can think of when I look at him is 'The Monster Of The Black Lagoon'!!


43 posted on 08/19/2004 10:33:20 PM PDT by potlatch (Sometimes I think I understand everything, then I regain consciousness.)
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To: Interesting Times
"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"

The truth is seeping out the cracks; and down the sides. . .

that said. . . I cannot understand those who are 'anti-war'. More people killed by totalitarian regimes than from wars; is that more peaceful or acceptable?

Hundreds of thousands of innocent, men, women and children can be made to 'disappear' by a Government leader; without creating anymore than a 'ripple' of interest or concern.

A hundred people - even less; can be lost in a war; a battle; a skirmish; and the same people who sleep through a genocide; are drawn out of their beds; and into their 'anti-war' refuge.

Even in the Ecclesiastes we have 'There is a time for war. . .and a time for peace'.

44 posted on 08/19/2004 10:33:59 PM PDT by cricket (Don't Lose Your Head. . .Vote Republican)
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To: potlatch

Pre-Botox Kerry climbs back into his
twinkboat after taking rice shrapnel in a gill slit.

45 posted on 08/19/2004 10:37:08 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: PhilDragoo

You have the monster!! Your way with words never fails to amaze me, LOLOL.


46 posted on 08/19/2004 10:42:30 PM PDT by potlatch (Sometimes I think I understand everything, then I regain consciousness.)
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To: Interesting Times

Did anyone else hear that great article by Gongressional
Medal of Honor winner, Gen. Patrick Brady, read by "The Great One" tonight on his show??? It was incredible and should be printed in every newspaper in America!! I hope to get a copy and pay for printing it in our local paper. This man should be asked to speak at the GOP Convention.


47 posted on 08/19/2004 10:49:22 PM PDT by Winfield (sham)
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To: Interesting Times

Lying sack of !@&^ Bump


48 posted on 08/19/2004 10:59:43 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Married men live longer than single men, but married men are a lot more willing to go..)
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To: The Mayor

Good news!


49 posted on 08/19/2004 11:02:30 PM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry has been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security)
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To: Interesting Times; Steve Malzberg; Carl/NewsMax; Chieftain; Defender2; potlatch; PhilDragoo; ...



  
CHRISTMAS EVE              
KOHNBODIA 1968              



                                                                                                                                             

50 posted on 08/19/2004 11:30:10 PM PDT by devolve ( -- Kerry & POW`s families - http://www.angelfire.com/film/macny/TheMission.html -)
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To: Interesting Times
There is one thing that's been bothering me. The majority
I believe because they are opening themselves up for
litigation not to mention I believe them over Kerry.

Why are the few sticking by him? It just doesn't make
sense unless he "has" something on them - OR - maybe some
of Mrs. Heinz-Kerry's $$$$$$$$$ got involved.

Anyone have any thoughts?
51 posted on 08/20/2004 12:16:28 AM PDT by AnimalLover ((Are there special rules and regulations for the big guys?))
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To: Interesting Times
As Grampa Dave says: "Christmas, 1968: Kerry with his Swift Boat Crew
in Scambodia. Kerry is wearing his CIA hat that came from Richard Nixon
a month before Nixon was sworn in as President."



52 posted on 08/20/2004 2:55:29 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: Interesting Times

BTTT!!!!!!!


53 posted on 08/20/2004 3:04:28 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: Interesting Times
Why has the old media let this slide?

Because Hanoi John is Anybody But Bush.
54 posted on 08/20/2004 3:13:27 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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To: RightthinkinAmerican
but quoted former local Swifty turned Texan (Chenoweth?, I think) in his charges.

Jack Chenoweth had command of PCF3 --the boat that struck the mine.

55 posted on 08/20/2004 3:15:02 AM PDT by dread78645 (Sorry Mr. Franklin, We couldn't keep it.)
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To: PhilDragoo
hahahaha!

56 posted on 08/20/2004 3:20:46 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: Interesting Times

Maps of South Vietnam 1965 - 1975
http://www.nexus.net/~911gfx/SVNmap.html


57 posted on 08/20/2004 3:33:08 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Sane, and have the papers to prove it!)
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To: Interesting Times

Yesterday on Fox News, with Brit Hume, a retired military Cowen (I think) not sure which service said there is some place in WDC where the "after-action" reports would be stored. Do you know where these documents are kept?


Also how would JFKerry get the Secretary of the Navy to issue new citations?

Didn't JFKerry run for president in 1988, and he got sanitized citations in 1986?


58 posted on 08/20/2004 4:21:02 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: kellynla

Guess we got our answer, huh? :-)


59 posted on 08/20/2004 4:27:43 AM PDT by Coop (In memory of a true hero - Pat Tillman)
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To: 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.

Great work! Keep it up. As far as payment, consider it an investment in your children's future. And think of the money you're saving by not letting Kerry raise your taxes! ;-)

60 posted on 08/20/2004 4:30:35 AM PDT by Coop (In memory of a true hero - Pat Tillman)
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