JOHN KERRY'S KURTZ CHRONICLES, CON'T: AN INTRODUCTION AND THE UNANSWERED QUESTIONS. [Hugh Hewitt]

Hugh Hewitt.com ^ | 15 August 2004 | Hugh Hewitt

[NavySEAL F-16]

It's going to come out sooner or later. It just has to. The LSM can't ignore too much longer.

[Partisan Hack]

What's going to come out?

[Diogenesis]

[Darkwolf377]

Kerry put on the hat, pulling the brim over his forehead. His blue button-down shirt and tie clashed with the camouflage. He pointed his finger and raised his thumb, creating an imaginary gun. He looked silly, yet suddenly his campaign message was clear: Citizen-soldier. Linking patriotism to public service. It wasn't complex after all; it was Kerry.

He smiled and aimed his finger: 'Pow.'"





He shouldn't be running for president; he should be running FROM the guys with the butterfly nets.

[Congressman Billybob]

Please note these two sentences from the KRV (Kerry Revised Version) of the Cambodia escapade. "There, Kerry and his crew along with two other boats were ambushed, taking fire from both sides of the river, and after the firefight were fired upon again. Later that evening during their night patrol they came under friendly fire."

"It is an acknowledged fact that Swift Boat crews regularly operated along the Cambodian border from Ha Tien on the Gulf of Thailand to the rivers of the Mekong south and west of Saigon. Boats often received fire from enemy taking sanctuary across the border."

What the Kerry Campaign said could conceivably be true, IF and only IF the river ran along the border. But that's not the way the river runs. It is PERPENDICULAR to the Cambodian border.

Then there is a second blatant falsehood in this revision. PBRs, not Swift Boats, were the ones that the US Navy used close to the border (and perhaps across the river in special ops). Kerry never set foot on a PBR.

The corrected dog also will not hunt.

Congressman Billybob

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[BillaryBeGone]

"...and on one occasion crossed into Cambodia at the request of members of a special operations group operating out of Ha Tien."

Ok, this is preaching to the choir, I realize, but here goes...

1.)Ha Tien is not even remotely close to where Kerry was stationed!
2.)How can one "sneak" a boat with TWO 500-hp diesels into enemy territory? And
3.) (From another article) How could Kerry have heard the Kmer Rouge firing at him WHEN THEY DIDN'T EXIST AT THAT TIME???

[afraidfortherepublic]

And how could Nixon have ordered him into Cambodia when Johnson was still president?

[jocon307]

"He shouldn't be running for president; he should be running FROM the guys with the butterfly nets."

Yeppers!

[kabar]

Kerry was not an independent agent. His boat could not have been tasked for a "secret mission" without the knowledge and approval of his superiors. It would be interesting to learn if his crew will also testify that they participated in these missions in Cambodia. Let's see how far they will go to lie for this scoundrel.

[BillaryBeGone]

And how could Nixon have ordered him into Cambodia when Johnson was still president?

Yeah, well, that's a question both hubby (a Swift OinC) and I would like to have answered. We are of the opinion that, just maybe, Kerry saw Apocalypse Now one too many times.

[kingattax]

ON C-SPAN NOW....KERRY-O'NEILL 1971 DEBATE !!!

[stylin19a]

ast week John Kerry recanted the detailed and emotional story of his Christmas Eve, 1968 illegal mission into Cambodia...

I never heard Kerry say a word. His campaign staff played "Lambchop".

[NavySEAL F-16]

There are so many lies to correct, it's hard to keep up with who said what and who is correcting the lies with another lie.

You might want to e-mail Hugh. He is a stickler for facts.

[martin_fierro]

[Samwise]

[Bonaparte]

"It is PERPENDICULAR to the Cambodian border."

This has been brought up before, John. I think caution is advised unless one of us can produce a detail map showing, say, a 10-mile square patch at the point where the Mekong passes over the border. I'm not familiar with that particular geography, but until I am, I'm willing to concede that a zoom-in may show that the Mekong takes a short wind right along the border itself before it crosses into Cambodia. We need that map.

[NonValueAdded]

Hold on a minute!!! The following occurred in 2003?:

He's always been on secret though illegal missions, including one that he spoke of in June 2003 to Washington Post reporter Laura Blumenfeld in which he produced his magic hat:

"A close associate hints: There's a secret compartment in Kerry's briefcase. He carries the black attaché everywhere. Asked about it on several occasions, Kerry brushed it aside. Finally, trapped in an interview, he exhaled and clicked open his case.

'Who told you?' he demanded as he reached inside. "My friends don't know about this."

The hat was a little mildewy. The green camouflage was fading, the seams fraying.

'My good luck hat,' Kerry said, happy to see it. 'Given to me by a CIA guy as we went in for a special mission in Cambodia.'

This guy is carrying around a secred-agent-man briefcase with a mildewed hat??? And I thought Bob Graham's journals were a bit odd! All kidding aside ... is Kerry certifiably insane?

[NonValueAdded]

secret-agent-man, that is.

[Bonaparte]

Ok. I think we have at least a start. Here's a map of the Mekong at the crossing.

If you place the cursor right at the point where the Mekong (highlighted yellow) crosses the border (about 1/4" above "Ho Chi Minh" City), and click with each successive zoom-in map down to the 12-mile scale (lower left), it appears that the river on your right is strictly perpendicular to the border. In larger scale zooms that river is clearly identified as the Mekong. However, in those larger scale zooms, the river that crosses the border on the left (in the 12-mile scale map) branches off from the Mekong and has no name displayed.

We are getting closer...