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An opportunity may be presenting itself for me to make a research stop-by in Vietnam (I've been there a number of times before), sometime in September or early October. This will give me an opportunity to engage in some brief opposition research on John Kerry and his role in the Vietnam War as well as his role in helping his friend Madame Nguyen Thi Bihn and her P.R.G. and his other friend Xuan Thuy and the North Vietnamese, to secure a military victory there in 1975.I've already in earlier years been to the anti-US history museum in Saigon, but...

The explanation for Senator John Kerry that he was in “Cambodia on Christmas 1968” is by now a famous if not humorous footnote to his overall portrayal of hi own Vietnam War experiences. It is seared in his own, and now our own, memories. However the statement by John Kerry of his whereabouts at that time begs a very important question. Did Kerry in fact violate a secret oath, made official by his signature, under penalty of severe punishment?William Shawcross, in his 1979 book Sideshow, detailing covert U.S. operations in Cambodia during the period of the Royal Cambodian government...