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Fact and fiction: Did Kerry make it to Cambodia? (Bottom line: Kerry is a FRAUD)
Washington Times ^
| Friday, August 13, 2004
| Andrew Antippas
Posted on 08/12/2004 11:38:58 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
The Washington Times
www.washingtontimes.com
By Andrew Antippas
Published August 13, 2004
I was startled to read the Aug. 10 issue of the editorial page of The Washington Times concerning the assertion attributed to Sen. John Kerry that he had spent Christmas 1968 aboard his swift boat some five miles inside Cambodia and had been shot at by our Vietnamese allies, as well as the Khmer Rouge.
I would like to offer some insights and some background about the subject of Cambodia as it related to the U.S. war effort in Vietnam in that period. I served as a Foreign Service officer in the American embassy in Saigon from March 1968 to February 1970 and subsequently at the American embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, from 1970 to 1972.
My job in the political section of our embassy in Saigon was to be the "Cambodia Man." My principal tasks were to follow border incidents involving U.S. forces along the Cambodian border. I worked as a liaison with U.S. forces, wrote reports to Washington, followed the intelligence about Communist use of Cambodia and, given that we did not have an embassy in Phnon Penh at that time, maintained contact with the Australian embassies in Saigon and Phnom Penh because the Australians were the U.S. protecting power in Cambodia.
I also worked with the International Control Commission (ICC) in Saigon and Phnom Penh.
The International Control Commission had been established by the Geneva Agreements of 1954 that ended the French Indochina war. The ICC had separate commission offices in the former French states of Indochina: North and South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The offices were to monitor their local military situations. The ICC was staffed by representatives of Canada, Poland and India.
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To: JohnHuang2
I served as a Foreign Service officer in the American embassy in Saigon from March 1968 to February 1970 and subsequently at the American embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, from 1970 to 1972.
My job in the political section of our embassy in Saigon was to be the "Cambodia Man." My principal tasks were to follow border incidents involving U.S. forces along the Cambodian border.
Yeah... but did he serve on the same BOAT as Kerry...?!? < /sarcasm>
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posted on
08/12/2004 11:46:51 PM PDT
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
(I feel more and more like a revolted Charlton Heston, witnessing ape society for the very first time)
To: JohnHuang2
Goodmoring JohnHuang2.
Just finished reading this article.
Excellent!
To: JohnHuang2
" Finally, concerning the assertion that
Mr. Kerry was shot at by the Khmer Rouge during his Christmas 1968 visit to Cambodia, it should be noted that
the Khmer Rouge didn't take the field until the Easter Offensive of 1972, when the Vietnamese forces that had attacked the Cambodians initially in March 1970 pulled out of Cambodia to attack the U.S. and Vietnamese forces in Vietnam. Only Vietnamese Communist soldiers were found on the battlefields of Cambodia in 1970-72. "
How will the Kerry campaign explain this away? LOL
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posted on
08/13/2004 12:09:49 AM PDT
by
FairOpinion
(FIGHT TERRORISM! VOTE BUSH/CHENEY 2004.)
To: JohnHuang2
No one seems to have noticed that Kerrys lie about Cambodia amounts to slander against a U.S. President. Specifically when Kerry was in Vietnam, President Johnson was his Commander in Chief. Thats right folks! Kerry has been caught slandering his very own Commander in Chief.
Im pushing for Kerrys new nick name: The Cambodian Candidate.
You heard it hear first.
If we can get a name like that to stick, its all over for John Kerry. In fact, all thats necessary is to get Sean Hannity to start using it.
The public loves a catchy nickname especially one with the ineluctable ring of truth.
Start using it.
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posted on
08/13/2004 12:12:45 AM PDT
by
Presto
(The Cambodian Candidate)
To: FairOpinion
How could John Kerry? is the question. By 1971, Mr. Kerry was a leader in a group of disaffected veterans deeply involved in opposition to the war. He would certainly have deep knowledge of the various "liberation armies" he was sympathetic to.
Khmer Rouge in 1968, indeed. LOL!
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posted on
08/13/2004 12:13:50 AM PDT
by
lavrenti
(I'm not bad, just misunderstood.)
To: Cincinatus' Wife
G'morning backatya, my friend :-)
To: Presto
Im pushing for Kerrys new nick name: The Cambodian Candidate. I like it.
To: FairOpinion
"Tis better to close your mouth and be thought a fool, then to open it and remove all doubt."
To: Presto
Im pushing for Kerrys new nick name: The Cambodian Candidate.
You heard it hear first.
i like that neeed a bumper sticker...
To: JohnHuang2
The latest John Kerry/Douglas Brinkley position is that Kerry was ferrying weapons to CIA assets in Cambodia during January and Febuary. That this is in John Kerry's journals that Brinkley has access to. True or false? We shall see.
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posted on
08/13/2004 12:24:35 AM PDT
by
dennisw
(Once is Happenstance. Twice is Coincidence. The third time is Enemy action. - Ian Fleming)
To: Presto
"
The Cambodian Candidate"
LOL!
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posted on
08/13/2004 12:24:49 AM PDT
by
VaBthang4
("He Who Watches Over Israel Will Neither Slumber Nor Sleep")
To: Presto
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posted on
08/13/2004 12:29:12 AM PDT
by
VaBthang4
("He Who Watches Over Israel Will Neither Slumber Nor Sleep")
To: JohnHuang2
but that was the only river incident involving the Cambodian border or Navy actions inside Cambodia to my recollection.
Finally, concerning the assertion that Mr. Kerry was shot at by the Khmer Rouge during his Christmas 1968 visit to Cambodia, it should be noted that the Khmer Rouge didn't take the field until the Easter Offensive of 1972, when the Vietnamese forces that had attacked the Cambodians initially in March 1970 pulled out of Cambodia to attack the U.S. and Vietnamese forces in Vietnam. Yeah, but Kerrys mission was secret CIA ,< /sarc>
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posted on
08/13/2004 12:32:26 AM PDT
by
Diddley
(LIBERALS say: We support the troops [or police], but we don't support the war [or fighting crime].)
To: JohnHuang2
Im pushing for Kerrys new nick name: The Cambodian Candidate. I like it.
How about the "Cambodichurian Candidate"?
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posted on
08/13/2004 12:36:18 AM PDT
by
Diddley
(LIBERALS say: We support the troops [or police], but we don't support the war [or fighting crime].)
To: FairOpinion
I didn't see your post [4] before I made mine.
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posted on
08/13/2004 12:38:09 AM PDT
by
Diddley
(LIBERALS say: We support the troops [or police], but we don't support the war [or fighting crime].)
To: Diddley
GMTA :)
This little fact is hard to argue away, that there were no Khmer Rouge there until years AFTER Kerry left.
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posted on
08/13/2004 12:45:40 AM PDT
by
FairOpinion
(FIGHT TERRORISM! VOTE BUSH/CHENEY 2004.)
To: JohnHuang2
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posted on
08/13/2004 1:53:27 AM PDT
by
FairOpinion
(FIGHT TERRORISM! VOTE BUSH/CHENEY 2004.)
To: JohnHuang2
And as my first act of office, I am sending
Kerry's Swift Boat to this spot in Cambodia.
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posted on
08/13/2004 3:52:37 AM PDT
by
PJ-Comix
To: JohnHuang2
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posted on
08/13/2004 3:26:43 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(Xin loi min oi)
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