Posted on 08/08/2004 5:09:55 PM PDT by Steven W.
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN AUG 08, 2004 19:04:35 ET XXXXX
SWIFT OFFICERS AND VETS: KERRY LIED ABOUT SPENDING CHRISTMAS IN CAMBODIA
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.
DRUDGE has learned from the accounts of Swift Boat officers and Kerry’s crewmembers that Kerry was never in Cambodia. UNFIT FOR COMMAND authors charge that Kerry made it all up.
“Despite the dramatic memories of his Christmas in Cambodia, Kerry’s statements are complete lies,” according to John O’Neil, co-author and the Swift Boat commander who took over Kerry’s boat. “Kerry was never in Cambodia during Christmas 1968, or at all during the Vietnam War. . . . he was more than fifty miles away from Cambodia.”
Kerry was stationed at Coastal Division 13 in Cat Lo. Coastal Division 13’s patrol areas extended to Sa Dec, about 55 miles from the Cambodian border. . . . Tom Anderson, Commander of River Division 531, who was in charge of PBRs (small river patrol crafts] confirmed that there were no Swifts anywhere in the area and they would have been stopped had they appeared.
All the living commanders in Kerry’s chain of command . . . deny that Kerry was ever ordered to Cambodia. They indicate that Kerry would have been seriously disciplined or court-martialed had he gone there. At least three of the five crewmen on Kerry’s boat, Bill Zaldonis, Steven Hatch, and Steve Gardner, deny that they or their boat were ever in Cambodia.
O’Neill observed that the Cambodia incursion story is not included in Tour of Duty (Kerry’s recent biography). Instead, Kerry replaced the story with a report about a mortar attack that occurred on Christmas Eve 1968 “near the Cambodian border” in a town called Sa Dec and Christmas day was spent at the base writing entries in his journal.
After conducting interviews and research, authors of Unfit for Command conclude, “The truth is that Kerry made up his secret mission into Cambodia.... the lie about the illegal Cambodian incursion painted his superiors up the chain of command. . . . as villains faced down by John Kerry, a solitary hero in grave and exotic danger and forced illegally against his will into harm’s way.”
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I really think thats letting him off too easy. I really believe there are mental issues here. But hey thats just like my opinion man.
Your statement and two questions below are the main reason I posted that entire article that was written by "Michael Kranish".
"Story was written for the Globe by "Michael Kranish"
"This is the same guy Kerry PAID to write the intro for his ghost-written book!!!
"What else was he paid for?!?!"
This past 4th of July I got to talk to a WWII vet who lives in Boston. He said that the Globe had done the same thing with Kerry that it had done with Jack and Ted Kennedy. It had made them appear to be heros instead of what they really were. He was the one who told me to do some searching on Globe articles and special articles as this one was, that were written to make Kerri a hero instead of a liar.
It is like the writer knew that he was BS ing Boston and the voting rats, and yet he felt a little guilty and compensated by dropping a few bread crumbs of truth and questioning. Then if he got caught in a mess like this, he could have a few points to show that he was still a journalist not a pulp fiction writer.
No matter WHAT he lies about or does, he is somehow not as EEEEEEEEEVIL as George W. Bush, who joyfully sent hundreds to die for no reason, and who is a complete idiot but manages to plot thousands of corrupt deals for all of his cronies as they take over the world. Oh, and who didn't want to deal with 9/11 at all because he first had to find out what happened to Pooh Bear in the story. EEEEEEEEVIL. Kerry had GOOD REASONS for all his lies.
Black is white. Up is down. G-d help us all!
So did Al Gore, and he won the popular vote. What is it with liberals? Why don't lying phony sacks of it bother them at all?
Hey folks......there is another article in which Kerry claims he was in Cambodia, this time from 1992 in an AP interview:
http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2004/08/a_cite_for_swif.html
"But for Kerry, who spent six violent months commanding a patrol boat on the Mekong River, there's always been a ring of truth to allegations of abandoned Americans. By Christmas 1968, part of Kerry's patrol extended across the border of South Vietnam into Cambodia.
"We were told, `Just go up there and do your patrol. Everybody was over there (in Cambodia). Nobody thought twice about it," Kerry said. One of the missions, which Kerry, at the time, was ordered not to discuss, involved taking CIA operatives into Cambodia to search for enemy enclaves.
"I can remember wondering, `If you're going to go, what happens to you,"' Kerry said."
Yes! This probably cannot be stressed enough. All the more reason to keep pointing out the flaws in the opposition.
Paging John McCain...
I have two words: Benedict Arnold.
Bump!
Somehow the fact that kerry's mind is trapped in his viet nam activites for all these 35 years doesn't seem to concern anyone enough to wonder why.
I'm a firm believer that the elite of the lunatic left are evil pathological liars who would make Nixon look sane at his worse.
Then their voting cults are dumbed down and mentally ill.
We saw their insane behavior at a certain funeral last year. That was a glimpse into what they really are like.
Get Mozilla and you won't either.
You are welcome. I will try to get some old Globe articles later this week. Now this old man needs to hit the bed.
Liar, phoney, girlieman, poser and traitor.
Johnhammed al Qerry.
We just don't need that crap!
Oh yes,I had quite forgotten. SORRY! :-)
Ping
Actually.....Kerry isn't his real name. Story and source below:
In the case of Sen. John Forbes Kerry, new scrutiny led to the discovery that the grandfather of the Massachusetts Democrat was Jewish, born Fritz Kohn in a small town that was once part of the Austrian empire and now is in the Czech Republic.
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