Posted on 08/11/2004 6:45:03 PM PDT by Jeff Blogworthy
Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry has waffled again, this time on his own recollections of a supposed mission to Cambodia on Christmas of 1968.
On the Senate floor on March 27, 1986 (Congressional Record, page S3594), Sen. Kerry said:
I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what is was like to be shot at by Vietnamese and Khme 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....
In an October 14, 1979, letter to the Boston Herald, Sen. Kerry wrote of his vivid memories of his Christmas Eve spent in Cambodia (quoted in Unfit for Command, page 46):
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.
But today, on Fox News' "Fox and Friends," Kerry Campaign Advisor Jeh Johnson had this to say to the show's co-host Brian Kilmeade:
JOHNSON: John Kerry has said on the record that he had a mistaken recollection earlier. He talked about a combat situation on Christmas Eve 1968 which at one point he said occurred in Cambodia. He has since corrected the recorded to say it was some place on a river near Cambodia and he is certain that at some point subsequent to that he was in Cambodia. My understanding is that he is not certain about that date.
KILMEADE: I think the term was he had a searing memory of spending Christmas - back in 1986 in the senate floor in Cambodia.
JOHNSON: I believe he has corrected the record to say it was some place near Cambodia he is not certain whether it was in Cambodia but he is certain there was some point subsequent to that that he was in Cambodia.
I think that someone should start a contest, with the prize going to that person who can identify a position that Senator Kerry kept consistently during his 20 years in the Senate.
8/11/04. Hmmm.
Didn't know most Asians, Buddhists, celebrated Christmas. He might've been in Cambodia at some point, and he might've had South VN shooting at him on Christmas.. but I don't think it's the same day. At best, he cobbled one story out of two events due to faulty memory.
That's his story. Turns out he's a lying phony SOB, pure and simple. A con man extra-ordinaire. A legend in history.
How nuanced of you.
Uhhh..that would be "upright" position.....barely!!!!!! ;^)
Why doesn't somebody point out the simple fact that Richard Nixon was NOT President on Christmas 1968!
He was elected in Nov. 1968, took office in January, 1969.
So you're accusing all National Guard members of being war dodgers? That they serve no useful purpose? Come on...spit it out.
"country in which President Nixon claimed there were no American troops"
WHAT! Nixon did not become President until 1969. Christmas 1968 was Lyndon Johnson.
Do you recall the plot of "Apocalypse Now"?
Five miles across the border.
Christmas.
Secret missions.
This story first came out of Kerry's brain in 1979, the year Apocalypse Now" was released.
Drugs can have a "searing" effect sometimes.
There must be some enterprising psychologists out there who read FR who can explain what the syndrome is that Kerry is living with? Any help would be appreciated so that I may better understand his lies......
Nuance,, isn't that a province of FRance? It's capital is Troll. ;-)
There is change in telling details of a story, and there is lying. Your guy, Kerry, is a liar. He makes up stories from thin air. I think you are a liar too.
Personality Separation Disorder. He actually believes these events happened.
Like what freakin country they were in???? Give me a break, newbie.
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Back to your cave Troll
Teraaaaayza: ""I could have bought you Cambodia, if you had just kept your damned mouth shut."
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