View Full Version : Kerry admits he lied about war record... will it make any difference to democrats?


95 BXL
08-13-2004, 05:02 AM
Not fricken likely.

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU AUG 12, 2004 21:01:21 ET XXXXX

JANUARY -- NOT CHRISTMAS -- KERRY IN CAMBODIA

**Exclusive**

TOUR OF DUTY author and John Kerry historian Doug Brinkley is rushing a piece for the NEW YORKER: to set-the-record-straight on Kerry's Christmas in Cambodia tale, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

Kerry has turned to author Brinkley for a "modification" after it was exposed that Kerry was not in Cambodia during Christmas of 1968, as he once claimed from the Senate floor.

The Brinkley piece for the NEW YORKER will now say that Kerry was not in Cambodia during Christmas, but rather in January, publishing sources tell DRUDGE.

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Since the early 1970s, Kerry has spoken and written of how he was illegally ordered to enter Cambodia. Kerry mentioned it in the floor of the Senate in 1986 when he charged that President Reagan’s actions in Central America were leading the U.S. in another Vietnam. Here’s what he said as excerpted from the new book, UNFIT FOR COMMAND:

"I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by the Vietnamese and Khmer 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."

John O’Neil’s, author of UNFIT FOR COMMAND, comments on the “clarification:”

“John Kerry describes Christmas Eve in Cambodia as a critical turning point in his life. We now know that his story is completely false. My question is how many people do you know have invented a turning point, one that is seared in his memory? While it makes sense for John Kerry to come clean about the Cambodia story, it is one of several tales that the Kerry campaign will have to face and clarify.”

“By claiming we were engaged in a war crime and crossing international borders, John Kerry damaged the credibility of all the commanding officers above him and insulted the sailors who served with him,” said John O’Neill, member of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.”

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Watch the leftists spin this crock of bullshit.

bAdKARma88
08-13-2004, 05:48 AM
said John O’Neill, member of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

heh now you know its a farse report.

95 BXL
08-13-2004, 10:24 AM
heh now you know its a farse report.

Yeah.... it's "farse."

That's why Kerry's changing his story now, right?

Kerry has turned to author Brinkley for a "modification" after it was exposed that Kerry was not in Cambodia during Christmas of 1968, as he once claimed from the Senate floor.

You'll have to do much better than this.

Big Mike C.
08-13-2004, 12:19 PM
www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com

marv
08-13-2004, 04:44 PM
A note on history: the US did indeed cross international borders illegally. It happened in Cambodia and Thailand and as early as 1959 in Laos. This isn't to say that I believe Kerry's story because he had a political and anti-military adgenda when he made his claim both then and now.

About half a dozen of us USAF types were posted TDY at a MACV (MAAG?) base camp just over the Laotian border south of Ban Vat from Feb '59 'til early June.

But Kerry's credibility? He "remembers" it was five miles inside the Cambodian border when they came under fire; then again maybe it was just close to the border. And it was "seared" in his mind that it was Christmas '68; but maybe it was January '69. By the late sixties, there must have been some really bad stuff to smoke in South Vietnam. Maybe Kerry's brain really did get "seared".

I'm older than Kerry and my mind isn't that bad. No wonder he didn't do anything in the Senate. And I've still got copies of my orders.