[Damocles]

This from a Lexis search:

Copyright 1991 Globe Newspaper Company 
The Boston Globe

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March 17, 1991, Sunday, City Edition

The delegation swooped down in glistening helicopters on the border outpost of Safwan, Iraq, to meet with the US Army's 1st Armored Division, which helped spearhead the allied ground offensive against Iraq and tangled with the Republican Guard.

"It's unbelievable," Sen. John Kerry said, congratulating the troops yesterday. "A lot of those of us who served in Vietnam found a new breath of air in your courage and optimism."

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Once a formal cease-fire is signed, the senators said, troops would be heading home.

[Sleeping Freeper]

Good find. Wish I had access to Lexis...

[RGSpincich]

So Kerry got there two weeks after the cease-fire had benn signed. The ink was still drying, I guess.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Story dated March 17, eh?

And when was the cease fire actually signed?

[Robert A Cook PE]

At least he is consistent.

Ole John Kerry (you did know he served in Vietnam) was quoting his 120 days of Vietnam service (in every paragraph he utters!) even in 1991!

Of course,like his "Christmas in Cambodia" "seared in his memory" recollection, Kerry can't keep his dates straight even as recently as 1991... It appears he was in Iraq well AFTER the cease-fire ceremony he claimed to have witnessed!