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

To: JDN who wrote (4752)	8/30/2004 4:24:31 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 27181

You burst her bubble. Christmas in Cambodia was her favorite chapter in Kerry's Tour of Duty.

To: JDN who wrote (4752)	8/30/2004 4:26:59 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27181

LIAR. Read the LA Times thorough investigation I posted last week. Kerry was in Cambodia multiple times. 3-4 times. He was ferrying Special Forces up there. The only issue is if he was ther on christmas Day exactly. That he may have fudged on, but the Times proves he was within 20 miles of Cambodia then and maybe evgen in Cambodia. Quit lying.

To: JDN who wrote (4752)	8/30/2004 4:41:33 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27181

SmearVet O'Neill admitted to Nixon he too was in Cambodia. In fact, anyone who knows about the secret wars going on up there finds it laughable that Smearvets claim Kerry was never there and no one else was. It was common knowledge that secret missions took place into Cambodia, not to mention secret bombing, all the time. Kerry like O'Neill was one of the guys who ferried Special Foroces into Cambodia for hush-hush missions. "The Kerry camp has pointed to inaccuracies in O'Neill's book and inconsistencies in statements he has made over the years. O'Neill, for instance, wrote that Kerry lied when he said he was in Cambodia as part of a secret war linked to Vietnam. No Americans were in Cambodia, O'Neill has said. But O'Neill told Nixon in 1971 that he was also "in Cambodia." O'Neill said his statements have remained consistent, that he was speaking in general terms to Nixon and meant that he was near Cambodia, not across the border. The Kerry campaign's accusations, however, have left some in Texas wondering whether O'Neill is as independent as he claims."

To: JDN who wrote (4752)	8/30/2004 4:46:15 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27181

While Bush-Cheney were dodging the draft before Bush went AWOL, Kerry was indeed operating on the Cambodian border deep behind enemy lines. SmearVets have lied and exaggerated saying Kerry was far from the Cambodian border. In fact the river they were on WAS the Cambodia border though as the vet with Kerry says "there are no signs". Kerry Reasserts Cambodia Claims Boston Globe - Kerry disputes allegations on Cambodia Senator John F. Kerry is disputing an allegation made by a group of veterans opposed to his presidential candidacy that he never operated inside Cambodia during the Vietnam War. In a just-published book, "Unfit for Command," the veterans said that "Kerry was never in Cambodia during Christmas 1968, or at all during the Vietnam War" and that he "would have been court-martialed had he gone there." But the Kerry campaign said that the group, which calls itself Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, is wrong and that Kerry was inside Cambodia to drop off special forces on one mission and was at the border on other occasions. "During John Kerry's service in Vietnam, many times he was on or near the Cambodian border and on one occasion crossed into Cambodia at the request of members of a special operations group operating out of Ha Tien," Kerry spokesman Michael Meehan said in a statement. The statement did not say when the cross-border mission took place. At the time of Kerry's service, the official policy was that US forces were supposed to respect the territorial integrity of Cambodia, but they occasionally went inside Cambodia either secretly or in pursuit of the enemy. For years, Kerry has said he was in Cambodia on Christmas Eve 1968. He gave a detailed view of that experience in an article he wrote for the Boston Herald in 1979. "I remember spending Christmas Eve five miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our South Vietnamese allies who were drunk and celebrating Christmas," Kerry wrote. "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." A similar recollection by Kerry was mentioned in a Globe biography of the Massachusetts senator published earlier this year. The anti-Kerry veterans have said Kerry's recollection does not make sense because Nixon was not inaugurated until January 1969. But Kerry campaign spokesman Meehan said Kerry was referring to a range of time that included when Nixon was president-elect and president. During the 1968 presidential campaign, Nixon opposed a change in US policy that would allow "hot pursuit" of enemy forces into Cambodia; in March 1969 he authorized the secret bombing of Cambodia, which was followed by the 1970 invasion of Cambodia. Kerry said in a 2003 interview that after the Christmas Eve 1968 engagement, he asked his crew to write a caustic telegram to the chief of naval forces in Vietnam, Elmo Zumwalt Jr., to wish him "Merry Christmas from the troops that weren't in Cambodia, which was us. We were." Meehan, in his statement issued last week, described the incident this way: "On December 24, 1968, Lieutenant John Kerry and his crew were on patrol in the watery borders between Vietnam and Cambodia deep in enemy territory. In the early afternoon, Kerry's boat, PCF-44, was at Sa Dec and then headed north to the Cambodian border. There, Kerry and his crew along with two other boats were ambushed, taking fire from both sides of the river, and after the firefight were fired upon again. Later that evening during their night patrol they came under friendly fire." James Wasser, who accompanied Kerry on that mission aboard patrol boat No. 44 and who supports Kerry's candidacy, said that while he believes they were "very, very close" to Cambodia, he did not think they entered Cambodia on that mission. Yet he added: "It is very hard to tell. There are no signs." * O'Neill admitted being in Cambodia too so is he saying he too should have been court martialed? LOL