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Hi everyone, I just now had time to finish this - enjoy ;-) --- Christmas in Cambodia (to the tune of Kim Wilde’s “Cambodia”) --- Well John was Cam Rahn based He was a Swift Boat guy, PCF ninety-four Back then in sixty-nine But soon he got too bored And he began to change Was “Boston Strangler” now His boss just thought him strange - But then he got a call From Tricky Dick one night He couldn’t tell his crew He had to keep it tight No camera gear to pack To reenact this fight He had to take...

This just discovered by Commissar from FOIA request of official US Navy files:Click me!

MEMO - THE WHITEHOUSE Date: December 24, 1968 From: Richard M. Nixon To: Lt. JG John Kerry Subj: CAMBODIA INCURSION Dear Mr. Kerry, we have selected you to take your swiftboat out tonight on a little run. Succeed, and their is a CIA hat in it for you. This is Top Secret, so don't do anything foolish like write a movie review about the experience at some future date. We want you to do this alone. So give your crew liberty tonight. Explain your absence away with some excuse. Try saying you want that ingrown toenail of yours looked at...

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More on distortions Guest View Doug Regelin Special to The Augusta Free Press I read with great interest the article from Alan Schlingenbaum (The politics of distortion, Monday AFP). This title only applies to Alan's article and not to the facts that he has tried to refute. My name is Doug Regelin, and since my name and my facts are brought up in Alan's article so prominently, I think it's only proper that I try to expose Alan for what he really is. First some facts. Alan and I traded a few e-mails in an effort to resolve what he...

McAuliffe says that Kerry was in Cambodia twice, and delivered some CIA men there. Link is to a 30 second videoclip with Hindrocket of Powerline blog asking the question and McAuliffe's direct answer/quote.

The Christmas Eve truce of 1968 was three minutes old when mortar fire exploded around John Forbes Kerry and his five-man crew on a 50-foot aluminum boat near Cambodia. “Where is the enemy?” a crewmate shouted. In the distance, an elderly man was tending his water buffalo — and serving as human cover for a dozen Viet Cong manning a machine-gun nest. “Open fire; let’s take ‘em,” Kerry ordered, according to his second-in-command, James Wasser of Illinois. Wasser blasted away with his M-60, hitting the old man, who slumped into the water, presumably dead. With a clear path to the...

Kerry Protest Song 1969</font size=5> I was in Cambodia when I wrote this Forgive me if it goes astray But when I woke up this mornin' Could have sworn it was election day The sky was all purple There were people runnin' everywhere Tryin' to run from the destruction You know I didn't even care They say two thousand zero, zero, protest over, Oops, out of time! So tonight I'm gonna protest like it's 1969! I was in Cambodia when I wrote this So sue me if I go too fast But life is just a protest And Governments weren't...

Last Sunday, editorial staff member Jim Boyd wrote a column ("Republican smear machine can't stand up to the facts") attacking our Aug. 18 column on John Kerry's Christmas in Cambodia fable as "fraudulent," and attacking us personally as "smear artists" engaged in "immorality." When someone uses language that strong, you'd expect him to have facts to back up his words. Yet Boyd's tirade was remarkably fact-free. First, the basics. We wrote that the Kerry campaign has retracted Kerry's oft-told tale of being in Cambodia on Christmas 1968. Boyd did not dispute this. We wrote that there is no record of...

This month the Kerry Campaign abandoned one claim that John Kerry had made for years about his Vietnam War service and put another into question. The claim that has been dropped: that Kerry was in Cambodia at Christmastime in 1968. In a 1979 review of the movie Apocalypse Now in the Boston Herald, Kerry wrote, "I remember spending Christmas Eve of 1968 5 miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our Vietnamese allies." In a 1986 speech on the Senate floor, Kerry said, "I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. . . . I...

<p>Most of the debate between the former shipmates who swear by Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and the group of other swift boat veterans who are attacking his military record focuses on matters that few of us have the experience or the moral standing to judge.</p>

Kerry under fire again: War record faces new assaults By David R. Guarino Read Guarino's Road to 1600 Blog Saturday, August 28, 2004 NEW YORK - Vietnam-era controversies continue to dog John Kerry [related, bio] and define the combustible race for president, helping give President Bush [related, bio] a new head of steam as his renominating convention opens here Monday. The ragtag Swift Boat Veterans for Truth launched another new Internet ad yesterday, piling new criticism on Kerry - even as Democrats began to hope the three-week dust-up was fading from the headlines. And a retired admiral came forward, alleging...

John Edwards is supposed to be a great lawyer, but at the recent Democratic convention he made a rookie mistake: He raised a question without knowing the answer. "If you have any questions about what John Kerry's made of, just spend three minutes with the men who served with him," he said. Edwards meant Kerry's "band of brothers" -- the small entourage of vets who served under him in Vietnam and now support him for president. Evidently, Edwards did not know at the time that almost every officer who commanded Kerry or served alongside him opposes his candidacy. Worse, they...

.... I assisted in the delivery of five separate intelligence dossiers in 1968 on the Cambodian base areas through the Australian Embassy in Phnom Penh to the Cambodian government. We know the dossiers had a significant impact on the Cambodians, and we began a low level of cooperation as a result of the information. The Navy kept track of Communist shipping to Cambodia, and the U.S. mission in Vietnam was persuaded that most of the munitions to the Communist forces in the southern half of South Vietnam were delivered through the Port of Sihanoukville. Line crossers were not generally used...

John Kerry has admitted two claims made by the Swifties already. That he wasn't in Cambodia and that the first Purple Heart "might have been" self inflicted. You would think the left wing media mafia would be all over this. It seems like the only true reporter has been Major Garett. Kind of frustrating.

When John Kerry went postal last week, the major media's preferred strategy for dealing with the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth -- to ignore them -- went down the toilet.     Mr. Kerry melted down because the Swifties' exposure of Kerry's "Christmas in Cambodia" fantasy has struck a nerve, and is gaining traction, despite the major media's refusal to report on it.     Mr. Kerry has claimed on dozens of occasions -- most notably in a speech on the Senate floor in 1986 -- to have spent Christmas eve, 1968, five miles inside of Cambodia on a mission in violation of international...

Kerry's Cambodia Whopper By Joshua Muravchik Tuesday, August 24, 2004; Page A17 Most of the debate between the former shipmates who swear by John Kerry and the group of other Swift boat veterans who are attacking his military record focuses on matters that few of us have the experience or the moral standing to judge. But one issue, having nothing to do with medals, wounds or bravery under fire, goes to the heart of Kerry's qualifications for the presidency and is therefore something that each of us must consider. That is Kerry's apparently fabricated claim that he fought in Cambodia....

washingtonpost.com Swift Boat Sniping WEN WE FIRST wrote about the ads slamming Democratic nominee John F. Kerry's service in Vietnam, we said that Mr. Kerry's emphasis on his Vietnam experience had made questions about his war record fair game. But we said that ads by the group calling itself Swift Boat Veterans for Truth had crossed the line in smearing the service that earned Mr. Kerry three Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star and a Silver Star. Nothing we've seen in the two weeks since has changed that view. snip Mr. Kerry's conflicting statements about where and when he was in...

But now some anti-Kerry veterans are saying he was never in Cambodia. John O'Neill, who has been dogging Kerry more than 30 years, told Matt Drudge that the senator's Christmas-in-Cambodia stories "are complete lies." As evidence, he cites Kerry's own wartime diary, as quoted in Douglas Brinkley's Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War. That book—according to Drudge's account of it—places Kerry in Sa Dec, 50 miles away from Cambodia, on Christmas Eve, and seemingly at peace. "Visions of sugarplums really do dance through your head," Kerry wrote in his diary that night, "and you think of stockings...

[snip]Now a new official statement from the campaign undercuts Brinkley. It offers a minimal (thus harder to impeach) claim: that Kerry "on one occasion crossed into Cambodia," on an unspecified date. But at least two of the shipmates who are supporting Kerry's campaign (and one who is not) deny their boat ever crossed the border, and their testimony on this score is corroborated by Kerry's own journal, kept while on duty. [snip] But Kerry has repeated his Cambodia tale throughout his adult life. He has claimed that the epiphany he had that Christmas of 1968 was about truthfulness. "One of...