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No Secret Christmas Mission for Kerry
| Tue, 08-10-2004 - 12:13am |
Watching Kerry the contortionist try to wriggle out of this should be quite amusing:
http://nooilforpacifists.blogspot.com/2004/08/kerry-tales-part-xliii-holidays-in.html
Renee ~~~

The performance has begun:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/08/12/wus12.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/08/12/ixnewstop.html
Renee ~~~
Renee ~~~
"American armed forces didn't enter Cambodia until Spring 1970, which prompted widespread protests and "four dead" at Kent State University--on May 4, 1970."
I have personal knowledge that this is not true. I, personally, with my own two eyes, read a transcript of a divorce proceeding in which the husband claimed that he was entitled to a larger share of martial property than his wife, because he had earned it while serving in the Army as a "special advisor" to the Cambodians and the Laoians in 1968-1970. His claim was that because of the hardships involved in earning the wages, he should be allowed a larger share of the marital property.
I also saw in the transcript the testimony of an "advisor" to the CIA, who came to invoke the "Secracy Act" to have the words "Cambodia" and "Laos" blacked out of the transcript. I talked to the attorney who tried the case, and asked him, specifically, if the words blacked out were "Cambodia" and "Laos." He told me they were.
I read this transcript because I wrote the appeal for the wife.
Whether the rest is true or not, I cannot say. But this much I can say for a fact. There were troops in Cambodia prior to Christmas, 1968. I saw the sworn testimony.
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.”