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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (61000)	5/5/2005 7:12:30 PM
From: tonto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

In 1979 John Kerry wrote in the Boston Herald: "On more than one occasion, I like Martin Sheen in "Apocalypse Now," took my patrol boat into Cambodia. In fact I remember spending Christmas Eve of 1968 five miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our South Vietnamese allies who were drunk and celebrating Christmas. 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." In 1986 John Kerry repeated the same claim on the senate floor: "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 the Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and 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." The media never investigated this Cambodia claim, so Kerry went further. In recent interviews he said he was smuggling CIA men and guns into Cambodia. One of these CIA operatives gave him a hat, which Kerry still carries around. It's his good-luck-hat. Recently it has become clear John Kerry's Cambodia memory, which was seared, seared in him was a lie! It started with a few matter of facts. Nixon was not yet president in 1968. A trivial fact is that the South Vietnamese are predominantly Buddhist and wouldn't have any reason to celebrate Chistmas. Another fact is that the Khmer Rouge was nowhere near the Vietnam-Cambodian border in 1968. But the real reason John Kerry was caught lying about his "Cambodian adventures" were his own words. In Kerry's personal diary, Kerry had written that he spent Christmas 50 miles from the border.

To: American Spirit who wrote (61000)	5/5/2005 7:14:45 PM
From: tonto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Kerry enlisted in the Naval Reserves on February 16, 1966, only after his fifth and final college deferment (to study in Paris) was denied. He chose the Naval Reserves to avoid being drafted into the army and shipped off to Vietnam. His status remained “inactive” until December 16 when the NAVY—and NOT KERRY—changed his status to “active”. Kerry’s first tour of duty wasn’t in Vietnam as his supporters keep repeating: From June 1967 to June 1968, Kerry was assigned to the USS Gridley, a “blue-water” vessel cruising the Pacific from California to Australia with a brief 5 weeks stop off the coast of Vietnam. On November 17 1968, the NAVY—and NOT KERRY—then decided to ship John Kerry off to Vietnam.