Posted on 08/09/2004 10:03:11 PM PDT by ArmyBratproud
Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign was scrambling Monday night to deal with new charges that he fabricated claims he was dispatched to Cambodia during the Vietnam War.
Confronted by Fox News Channel's Carl Cameron over the top Democrat's earlier accounts that he was in Cambodia in Dec. 1968, the Kerry campaign at first denied their candidate had said any such thing.
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check this out from the original Carl Cameron thread, posted by Chaguito:
http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/journal_day2.shtml, "John F. Kerry/Candidate in the Making; John Kerry's Viet Nam War Journal" Kerry says...
"You head back towards Sa Dec to make your report while transiting the night darkness is broken by tracers flying up out of a Vietnamese outpost that is celebrating Christmas. ... Apologies are quick to (unable to read) but they mean nothing amidst all the chaos and waste. It's cool now and the evening has closed around you to become full night. The night for once is comforting and you take a coke and some peanut butter and jelly and go up on the roof of the cabin whit your tape recorder and sit for a while, quietly, watching flares float silently through the sky and flashes announce disquieting intent somewhere in the distance. You call down to one of your men and ask him to draft a message to the Admiral in Command of all Naval Forces in Vietnam and also to the Commander of Market Time. IT says "Merry Christmas from the most inland Market Time unit." You hope that they'll court marshal you or something because that would make sense. But the night soothes everything and the people and things that are close to you dart through the mind and bring the only warmth and peace that there is. Visions of sugar plums really do dance through your head and you think of stockings and snow and roast chestnuts and fires with birch logs and all that is good and warm and real. It's Christmas Eve."
O'neill mentions "sugar plum fairies" in Kerry's head on Christmas 1968 in his letter to TV station managers. It's directly from Kerry's own words!
Is there any way to get this to Carl Cameron? Kerry himself says he was in Sa Dec on Christmas. He also never says in his journal that he went to Cambodia, only that the river he was on went "toward Cambodia".
563 posted on 08/09/2004 7:40:51 PM PDT by Chaguito
It's kind of hard to fight against the truth.
I just hope the truth will win out.
Hmmmmmm. They need time to cook up a good story. Lets see, He got lost, just thought he was in Cambodia, nah, secret mission, cant talk about it...nah, boy this might be tough.
Fox said he wrote a review of "Apocalypse Now". Anyone know where it is? He made some claims in the review he wrote too according to fox tonight. Boy this Cambodia story sure has legs! I thought it was going to fizzle. Cool.
And who says the Republicans don't know how to play offense.
Kerry can't keep all the different versions of the story straight that he has told over the years. No wonder he can't answer a simple question. What a Dufus
I personally hope that he rots in Hell for what he did to honorable vets returning home. Because of Fonda and Kerry some Vets committed suicide, became homeless and alcoholics because they had no "home" to come home to. Kerry also caused our POW to suffer because of his anti-American actions. BURN YOU BASTAGE, BURN!
--- the Kerry campaign at first denied their candidate had said any such thing.---
Whatever these folks are getting paid, it's too much.
Did you all hear that NPR woman on Brit Hume's show this evening that Kerry was probably lost? He only went 58 miles out of his way in a war zone!
New to Free Republic??---do I smell a Demonrat shill?
Yeah, Barns ate Williams chit tonight. Barns wouldn't let Williams go to "its a hit piece paid for by republicans" and kept Williams' feet to the fire, and made the case that Kerry lied unless Kerry can prove differently (which he can't). Kerry's lies are unraveling.
I have no problems with that explanation--but wait! Wasn't it a secret mission? sKerry is still lost!
Why do you say that? What did I say that you don't like?
bit dramatic
Suspicion is aroused when a new guy jumps in, and takes the extreme position. This tactic sometimes leads to posts meant to discredit FR as a home to fanatics, kooks, and extremists advocating violence etc. Until we know you, we will watch your replies with caution. That's what was meant.
Umm .. you migh want to take a chill pill
BTW .. Welcome to FR
In a sense, he may be doing that right now...
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