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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MrLucky who wrote (749)	8/17/2004 11:10:46 AM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 27181

John Kerry’s Cambodia “Re-Write” By Sher Zieve Aug 14, 2004 The John Kerry stories just get more and more bizarre, as he makes more costume changes than a Broadway actor. Kerry is reinventing himself, yet, again. Realizing that he has been caught in his less-than-truthful yarn about his “secret mission” to Cambodia (which he says was directed by President Richard Nixon…who wasn’t even President at the time) in Christmas 1968, Kerry has now advised his historian Doug Brinkley to “revise” his book Tour of Duty; that portion of it mentioning the 1968 date that Mr. Kerry has repeatedly and adamantly stood by for years. Kerry has now decided to “change the date” from Christmas 1968 to January 1969…the month that President Nixon took office. Although Kerry’s account of his being between Viet Nam and Cambodia in the “delta region” has been decisively proven false (there is no delta region between the two countries), still he persists in floating this latest far-from-the- truth propaganda offering. This is not just a slip of memory on Mr. Kerry’s part but, a calculated attempt to ensure the timelines fit within his “4 month Hero Tour”. Apart from the fact that this is an unconscionable manipulation of the truth (actually an additional manipulation of a previous lie), Mr. Kerry still ‘carries on’. My bet is that Mr. Kerry believes the old adage “You can fool some of the people all of the time”. Suffice it to say, I can’t believe anything the man says. The problem I (and many others) have is that Kerry has now been caught in multiple deceptions about his 4 month tour in Viet Nam and he’s made his service in Viet Nam is his platform. This is only the latest and most blatant. In 1986, Mr. Kerry told the US Senate (as excerpted from the 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." This is another “Kerry Goes beyond Flip- Flop” moment. It, coupled with his new “rewrite”, is as patently false as his initial reports suggesting he viewed “atrocities being committed in Viet Nam”. He later revised his statement to say that he’d “heard about them”. To assert that this guy is scary is a gross understatement. Kerry has now become horrifying in his cavalier treatment of the truth; or anything that places an “unkind” and glaringly bright light on the false statements and claims he’s made and continues to make. Apparently, Kerry prefers the dark, which allows for extensive clandestine and ill-conceived behaviors. With all of his ongoing shenanigans, Mr. Kerry has presented himself as the candidate of no values, no character and one who will lie to serve his own interests. If he were to be elected to the presidency of the United States, which or whose interests would he champion? From Mr. Kerry’s own words, actions and deeds the answer to that question is apparent.