Calif. Hunter
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If there is one story told over and over again by John Kerry since his return from Viet Nam, it is the heart-wrenching tale of how he spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 1968 illegally in Cambodia. From the early 1970's through the mid-80's and 1990's, Kerry has spoken and written again and again of how he was illegally ordered to enter Cambodia. He says that he experienced first-hand the duplicity of the Nixon administration and to hear the President of the United States telling the American people that he was not there.
From an interview in the Boston Herald - "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." As recently as July 7, 2004, Michael Kranish of the Boston Globe repeated Kerry's "Cambodia Christmas" claim on Fox New's "Hannity and Colmes" TV show, saying that it was a critical turnig point in Kerry's life - "Kerry said later that he had gone into Cmabodia, despite President Nixon's assurances to the American public that there was no combat action in this neutral country."
The fact is - Nixon was not sworn in as President for 26 days after Christmas 1968.
The Cambodia incident is not mentioned in Kerry's newer book "Tour of Duty." Now he says he was under mortar attack at Sa Dec, "near the Cambodian border." (Sa Dec is over 50 miles from Cambodia.) Somehow, the Christmas Eve story that he told on the Senate floor, is now replaced by a firefight at Sa Dec on Christmas Eve 1968 and a Christmas Day spent writing in his journal.
The whole "secret mission" into Cambodia is just another Kerry lie. When will it end, and how can you trust anything this guy says???
[ 08-05-2004, 15:14: Message edited by: Calif. Hunter ]
From an interview in the Boston Herald - "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." As recently as July 7, 2004, Michael Kranish of the Boston Globe repeated Kerry's "Cambodia Christmas" claim on Fox New's "Hannity and Colmes" TV show, saying that it was a critical turnig point in Kerry's life - "Kerry said later that he had gone into Cmabodia, despite President Nixon's assurances to the American public that there was no combat action in this neutral country."
The fact is - Nixon was not sworn in as President for 26 days after Christmas 1968.
The Cambodia incident is not mentioned in Kerry's newer book "Tour of Duty." Now he says he was under mortar attack at Sa Dec, "near the Cambodian border." (Sa Dec is over 50 miles from Cambodia.) Somehow, the Christmas Eve story that he told on the Senate floor, is now replaced by a firefight at Sa Dec on Christmas Eve 1968 and a Christmas Day spent writing in his journal.
The whole "secret mission" into Cambodia is just another Kerry lie. When will it end, and how can you trust anything this guy says???
[ 08-05-2004, 15:14: Message edited by: Calif. Hunter ]
