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Kerry told his colleagues he was on Navy duty in Cambodia at a time when President Richard M. Nixon lied to the public and said that there were no U.S. forces in that country. Kerry says he even took enemy fire.
Kerry railed against Nixon for years after leaving the Navy in 1969. And he still does.
In his words, "I remember 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."
Kerry indicated clearly and by name that it was President Nixon.
But president Nixon did not make the speech that is seared in Kerry's brain in 1968, when Kerry was allegedly in Cambodia, because LBJ was President in 1968.
Nixon did authorize the Cambodian encroachement into the Cambodian fish hook, but that was in 1970, a full year after Kerry left Vietnam after serving 33% of his tour.
Kerry has always called Vietnam Nixon's war. The following is how one reporter explains it:
The day after the Iowa caucus, I wrote an article entitled "Is John Kerry a Good Democrat? Is John Kerry a Good Man?" It took me only one day to answer both questions. In his victory speech after his Iowa triumph, Kerry spoke of "Richard Nixon's War." That, sadly, answered every question about this particular incarnation of Leftist evil.
Richard Nixon's War? Kerry served in Vietnam when Lyndon Baines Johnson was president, not when Richard Nixon was president. The Vietnam War had been a big political issue, but that issue was first presented to the American people in 1964, not 1968.
Lyndon Johnson and his crooked flacks within the Democrat Party smeared one of the most decent and noble men in American politics, Barry Goldwater, by pretending that Goldwater would do just what Johnson had planned to do: fight a war in Vietnam...
...all things are not equal when John Kerry, the richest man in the Senate, can look at Americans whose fathers, sons, brothers and husbands died in a noble cause and pretend that this was “Richard Nixon’s War.” No, Senator Kerry. You are a liar. It was not “Richard Nixon’s War.” It was “John Kerry’s Killing Fields.”
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