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To: Brumar89 who wrote (97963)	2/1/2005 3:17:37 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 793742

So Many Names, So Little Capacity For Thought Captain Ed I have received e-mail today asking why I'm not making a bigger deal of this portion of the Meet the Press transcript from yesterday, in which John Kerry appears to accuse American intelligence service of running weapons to the Communists during Viet Nam: <<< MR. RUSSERT: And you have a hat that the CIA agent gave you? SEN. KERRY: I still have the hat that he gave me, and I hope the guy would come out of the woodwork and say, "I'm the guy who went up with John Kerry. We delivered weapons to the Khmer Rouge on the coastline of Cambodia [emphasis mine]." We went out of Ha Tien, which is right in Vietnam. We went north up into the border. And I have some photographs of that, and that's what we did. So, you know, the two were jumbled together, but we were on the Cambodian border on Christmas Eve, absolutely. >>> The Khmer Rouge, of course, were the Cambodian Communist rebels that wound up sacking the country after we bailed out of Southeast Asia. Why Kerry would think that we ran weapons to the Communists in Cambodia while battling them in Viet Nam is beyond me. It's apparent that he's making this story up as he goes along. Every time he's asked about Christmas in Cambodia, he changes the story. This time, he came up with a name that fits with the subject matter, but he's so clueless that he either didn't know or couldn't remember exactly what the Khmer Rouge were. It's yet another marker of the dishonesty we've come to expect from the junior senator from Massachusetts. He won't sign the Form 180, either, even with his promise to do so in the same interview. His prevarication has become pathological. Posted by Captain Ed captainsquartersblog.com

To: Brumar89 who wrote (97963)	2/1/2005 5:53:16 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793742

Would be interesting to see one of the blogs put up a map showing how one would have to travel to get from Sa Dec to the "coastline of Cambodia". Here ya go. Sa Dec is 80 km S of the Cambodian border along the Mekong river. See map scale in lower right corner. To get to the Cambodian coastline kerry would have had to take the river out to sea and putt putt around the horn of the Southern Delta region. Remember nobody on his boat or in his unit backed him on this assertion. Surely someone would remember such a foray. asiatravel.com Although the Khmer Rouge did not come to power and begin the slaughter of 1.5 million people, until 1975, they had been backing and supporting the North Vietnamese Communist Forces since the 60s and we knew it. No way was Kerry sent to deliver guns to them.