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It's compulsive...he can't help it. It is the knee jerk to anything that is bad. And the philosophy of the campaign is "we'll clean it up later". This is blatantly obvious on the "I spent Christmas Eve in Cambodia" claim that he repeated more than 50 times over 4 decades...but yesterday he blatantly LIED to seniors on the campaign trail - and it took less than 40 years to prove it. As FOX NEWS' Carl Cameron reported: Lie #1. - "I proudly and I think rightly voted against this prescription drug bill." Fact - Kerry skipped the vote. Lie #2....

The book appears to be meticulously researched and reported. It is replete with copious footnotes, a detailed index and two appendices. First-hand witnesses are named and quoted verbatim to support each specific, shocking charge. Each charge of false heroics is logically presented. Theauthors quote the official Navy citation and then present the purported eyewitnesstestimony that refutes the official finding. The witnesses who are summoned forth are officers and men who served simultaneously with Mr. Kerry in Coastal Division 11 and purport to be eyewitnesses to the events in question. And yet, there is another group of men, the sailors who...

KERRY/CAMBODIA UPDATE: I promised a while back to see if I could get a look at the Boston Herald story -- where Kerry says he remembers spending Christmas, 1968 in Cambodia and hearing President Nixon deny that troops were there -- in original form. The quote's genuine, and here's an image. Sorry it's a bit hard to read: it's a scan of a fax of a photocopy of a microfilm, sent to me by a helpful reader who works at the Herald. But what's really interesting is the context -- see the full scan here -- which is all about...