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Kerry's Latest Flip-Flop, Cambodia -- Did He Lie to the U.S. Senate?
Posted Aug 11, 2004


Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry has waffled again, this time on his own recollections of a supposed mission to Cambodia on Christmas of 1968.

On the Senate floor on March 27, 1986 (Congressional Record, page S3594), Sen. Kerry said:
I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what is was like to be shot at by Vietnamese and Khme 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....
In an October 14, 1979, letter to the Boston Herald, Sen. Kerry wrote of his vivid memories of his Christmas Eve spent in Cambodia (quoted in Unfit for Command, page 46):
I remember spending Christmas Eve of 1968 five miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our South Vietnamese allies who were drunk and celebrating Christmas. The absurdity of almost being killed by our own allies in a country in which President Nixon claimed there were no American troops was very real.
But today, on Fox News' "Fox and Friends," Kerry Campaign Advisor Jeh Johnson had this to say to the show's co-host Brian Kilmeade:
JOHNSON: John Kerry has said on the record that he had a mistaken recollection earlier. He talked about a combat situation on Christmas Eve 1968 which at one point he said occurred in Cambodia. He has since corrected the recorded to say it was some place on a river near Cambodia and he is certain that at some point subsequent to that he was in Cambodia. My understanding is that he is not certain about that date.

KILMEADE: I think the term was he had a searing memory of spending Christmas - back in 1986 in the senate floor in Cambodia.

JOHNSON: I believe he has corrected the record to say it was some place near Cambodia he is not certain whether it was in Cambodia but he is certain there was some point subsequent to that that he was in Cambodia.

[jbodell]

[stylin19]

good grief ! all of Viet Nam is near Cambodia.
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U.S.M.C. - 1969-1971
RVN- 1970-1971

[integritycounts]

He has admited only to being wrong on the time, but is affirming that he was in Cambodia.

If this is a lie, its not historical, it after he has accepted the nomination.

Either he was ordered into Cambodia or not. His attempt at damage control on Cambodia is notihng but a Band-aid, but unlike his first Purple Heart, this is a large wound to his integrity.

My Vote is to release a press release to the news wires which clearly documents his time in Cambodia. Feed it up to them so its perfectly clear, and challenge Kerry to correct his lie.

[carpro]

Maybe someone should ask him about this special CIA mission he went on with the guy that gave him the bush hat.

I'm laughing so hard I can't hardly typeeeeeeeeee
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"If he believes his 1971 indictment of his country and his fellow veterans was true, then he couldn't possibly be proud of his Vietnam service."

[Herb]

According to O'Neill:
"At least three of the five crewmen on Kerry's boat, Bill
Zaldonis, Steven Hatch, and Steve Gardner, deny that they
or their boat were ever in Cambodia."


So his latest 'we were in Cambodia but some other time
even though I said it was seared into my memory and
repeated it in print and even on the floor of the Senate
to attack American, my fellow officers, an even the
(wrong) American President' will need to be changed
again.
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Herb