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

To: tonto who wrote (76577)	5/29/2006 6:25:54 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Kerry was speaking retrospectively about events in Vietnam and Cambodia. He spoke first in 1979. That was 10 years after the event, and Nixon had come and gone as President. Kerry was not writing in his journal these words, he was talking about the events after the fact. In fact his journal had little or no information regarding the trip into Cambodia, where he was part of a covert operation inserting CIA operatives. You can't write that mission down in your diary. On Dec. 24th Nixon was weeks away from inauguration. One of the first things that Nixon did was order the bombing of NVA bases in Cambodia. Why did he do that? Because operations like the one that Kerry took part in were gathering intel on what was going on in Cambodia and Laos. Soldiers were on the ground in both countries as early as 1964. Nixon denied that the US had any presence in Cambodia, this shortly after he ordered the bombing and ground troop operations. Kerry did not say that Nixon was the president when he was in Cambodia. He was not speaking of concurrent events. He was speaking retrospectively. Both Johnson and Nixon denied that troops were in Cambodia. Kerry was not in error, because he did not claim that Nixon was the president at the time. Nixon knew that troops were in Cambodia shortly after he was elected president, and before Kerry was on his operation though. He was briefed on all those elements before inauguration day. Within a month he made the decision to bomb Cambodia. He based his decision on the intel gathered during the time when Kerry was in Cambodia. Nixon denied that troops were there. Kerry's statement is therefore correct. He was not speaking of concurrent events, but sequential events. No where in Kerry's statement does it say that Nixon was the president at the time Kerry was in Cambodia.