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I don't know if this was posted before but this is the first time I have seen this claim of support:

Fox News Sunday w/ Chris Wallace (8/22)
WALLACE: Well, let me pursue that. What proof do you have that Kerry was ever five miles inside Cambodia?

JOHN HURLEY, NATIONAL DIRECTOR, VETERANS FOR KERRY:
John Kerry's word.

WALLACE: Do you have a single record?

HURLEY: No, I do not. John Kerry was in Cambodia. They were requested to drop off various operations group and deliver various supplies. They were in there. His crew will say the same thing.

WALLACE: Well, you say the crew. He has had crew members who have stood up and defended him on almost everything else. Do you have a single crew member who's come forward to say he was five miles inside Cambodia?

HURLEY: This hasn't been an issue until really recently. And why we're going back now and revisiting where John Kerry was on a single night in 1968 is beyond me. I mean, the same questions can be asked of President Bush. Where was he when he was supposed to be reporting for duty in Alabama? Those questions need to be raised and asked, as well.

John Kerry acknowledges he was in Cambodia. Where he was on any given night is not part of this discussion, or should not be part of this discussion.

WALLACE: I take it then the answer is no, you don't have a single crew member who will say he was in Cambodia, five miles inside Cambodia, on Christmas Eve 1968 or any other night.

HURLEY: On other nights, yes, they will say that. On December 24th, they will not say that.

WALLACE: Who's going to say that? Because I haven't heard a crew member who's...

HURLEY: It was the 94 boat. This issue hasn't come up. And it's the reason why it hasn't been addressed. But on Christmas Eve, he was on the 44 boat. They were near the Cambodian border. They may or may not have crossed over. On a different occasion, on the 94 boat, they were five miles deep into Cambodia. It was a month later, a month and a half later. The crew will testify to that.

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This directly contradicts this:

"Separately, according to Meehan's statement, Kerry crossed into Cambodia on a covert mission to drop off special operations forces. In an interview, Meehan said there was no paperwork for such missions and he could not supply a date. That makes it hard to ascertain or confirm what happened. Kerry served on two swift boats, the No. 44 in December 1968 and January 1969, and the No. 94, from February to March 1969.

Michael Medeiros, who served aboard the No. 94 with Kerry and appeared with him at the Democratic National Convention, vividly recalled an occasion on which Kerry and the crew chased an enemy to the Cambodian border but did not go beyond the border. Yet Medeiros said he could not recall dropping off special forces in Cambodia or going inside Cambodia with Kerry." (Boston Globe, 8/18/2004)

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Medeiros' brain must not have that "searing" capability or he would have remembered dropping off those Special Forces, Navy Seals, CIA Agents and little green men five miles inside Cambodia. It would be great if we could hear just one of Kerry's Swift supporters interpretation of the events and see how they would stand up with the questioning from Hannity or Hume. Would they do as well as Gardner or O'dell have done in the face of intense "grilling" by the likes of Mathews, etc. Where are they anyway?
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