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At three days, I see the first mainstream media outlet cover the Kerry in Cambodia flop. However, it’s an opinion piece. And it’s assuming the AJC is mainstream media:
Kerry claimed in a March 27, 1986, speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate that he vividly remembered Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. “I remember what it was like to be shot at by 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.”
It was a story he had told earlier, as well, blaming President Nixon for lying to the country. Kerry’s swift-boat superiors deny that he was ever in Cambodia — the border region was not in his division’s area of operation — and, according to another book about Kerry, “Tour of Duty,” he spent Christmas 1968 in Sa Dec, more than 50 miles from the border. And, of course, on Christmas of 1968, Lyndon Johnson was still president.
August 13th, 2004 at 11:39 pm
What completely befuddles me is that Bob Kerrey ex Senator/Governor (D-Ne) is a true hero in that he is a genuine Congressional Medal of Honor recipient and he stands by John Kerry like a sturdy old oak tree. In fact our Senator Chuck Hagel (R-Ne) is co-hosting a NYC bash with Bob Kerrey for Candidate Kerry. (I am livid and plan on doing a piece on it on my blog in the next few days)
August 14th, 2004 at 10:29 am
Gunscribe,
Better brush up on Bob Kerrey ex Senator/Governor (D-Ne). He stopped running for the Senate and for President when some of his VietNam antics were revield. Actually, he may be talking so nice about Kerry because Kerry’s made-up atrocity stories are closer to Kerrey’s real ones.