Posted on 08/18/2004 1:10:10 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
..........James Wasser, who accompanied Kerry on that mission aboard patrol boat No. 44 and who supports Kerry's candidacy, said that while he believes they were "very, very close" to Cambodia, he did not think they entered Cambodia on that mission. Yet he added: "It is very hard to tell. There are no signs."
Another crewmate who said he was with Kerry on Christmas Eve, Steven Gardner -- who is a member of the veterans group opposing Kerry's candidacy -- said Kerry was 50 miles from Cambodia at the time. He accused Kerry of lying about being in Cambodia or by the border. "Never happened," Gardner said.
Separately, according to Meehan's statement, Kerry crossed into Cambodia on a covert mission to drop off special operations forces. In an interview, Meehan said there was no paperwork for such missions and he could not supply a date. That makes it hard to ascertain or confirm what happened. Kerry served on two swift boats, the No. 44 in December 1968 and January 1969, and the No. 94, from February to March 1969.
Michael Medeiros, who served aboard the No. 94 with Kerry and appeared with him at the Democratic National Convention, vividly recalled an occasion on which Kerry and the crew chased an enemy to the Cambodian border but did not go beyond the border. Yet Medeiros said he could not recall dropping off special forces in Cambodia or going inside Cambodia with Kerry.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
The Boston Globe is nothing more than a mouth piece for the Kerry campaign.
The title is misleading. Kerry has not denied the charges, he has been completely silent.
Or was it actually Senator Bob Kerrey who went to Cambodia? After all, John Kerry's memory is seared.
And they'd rather be talking about anything other than this!
Check out the column in Post #1. No Kerry mouthpiece there.
And now we find out John Kerry has the hots for Marilyn Monroe!
I haven't read the Globe in years, except for what gets posted on FR, but I have the impression it's between a rock and hard place: it naturally despises Bush, but overall it really doesn't seem to be crazy about Kerry either.
Also, I can just imagine the CIA checking up on John Kerry. Bandaid injuries. Retreating like a coward during a skirmish. Very little combat experience. Might compromise a mission with his home movie cameras. Two self-inflicted injuries.... Yeah! That's the guy we're looking for!
Gosh it sure is a shame that Kerry couldn't clear this up by RELEASING ALL OF HIS MILITARY AND MEDICAL FILES, as well as his War Diary and his wife's tax returns.
"During John Kerry's service in Vietnam, many times he was on or near the Cambodian border and on one occasion crossed into Cambodia at the request of members of a special operations group operating out of Ha Tien," Kerry spokesman Michael Meehan said in a statement. The statement did not say when the cross-border mission took place.
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That's some fancy lying from the John Kerry campaign. Making it a fog of war kinda thang.
Unfit for Command [Excerpt] ...Kerry's testimony to the Fulbright Committee was a carefully orchestrated piece of political theater. Fulbright wanted a presentable,
young Kennedy-esque face to put on the antiwar effort, and Kerry wanted a national forum from which to launch his climb to political celebrity. Ted Kennedy
helped arrange Kerry's testimony with Senator Fulbright at a private fundraising event held at the home of Democratic senator Philip A. Hart of Michigan.
…………..Once Kerry learned that he would have the chance to give testimony before the committee, he recruited the assistance of Adam Walinsky, a
speechwriter noted for his work with Robert Kennedy. Walinsky drafted the speech and coached Kerry on its delivery. The only image Kerry wanted us to see was
a myth: a young man with a burning passion for the truth, the leader forced to sleep on the ground, the man answering his country's call to be where he was urgently
needed, before a committee of the United States Senate where the senators and America were urgently waiting for his firsthand criticism of the war. He proceeded
to level his charges: [End Excerpt] Page 99-100, 102-103
So much for "seared in my memory." Check out the column in Post #1 for some sanity.
If it looks like a turd, smells like a turd, its a very good possibility that its a turd....
You know what I want? A list of the 10 LEAST secretive presidential administrations in history. Like was Millard Fillmore just a big blabbermouth?
So Kerry and his crew are in a boat, and he is chasing "an enemy" up a river.
Was the enemy one foot, or were they in one of those new fangled North Vietnmese or VC speedboats??
Or maybe Kerry was chasing a VC helicopter. Or maybe the enemy was swimming??
I dunno. This story sounds kookier and kookier.
I think O'Neill said they were 55 miles from Cambodia.
Not exactly close to the border.
It's that old "tangled web."
Well, home was so far away, and it was Christmas eve, so.....
It don't fly.
Two Swiftboat Vets supporting Kerry contradict stories he's told in the past. He clearly lied, on several occasions, yet these dopes continue to stand next to him. Don't they realize how it makes them look?
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