"Seared in My Memory”

John Kerry's decision to run for president on his record in Vietnam has ripped the scab off of the wounds that war inflicted on the American body politic. Some of Kerry's defenders have laid this charge at the feet of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, but the fact is that they were responding to what they perceived as an affront to their honor. This is why all the attempts to paint them as Republican stooges are so far off of the mark.

what a freakin LOSER LIAR!!....arrogant braggert... its sickening to think he is ACTUALLY running for POTUS... but I still cant get over the fact that coward Clinton actually WAS POTUS twice....a dark moment in American history...

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On March 27, 1986, on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Kerry accused President Ronald Reagan of leading the United States into another Vietnam in Central America, accusing the administration of Nixon-like duplicity and saying that he should recognize it because of his Vietnam experience. Kerry told his colleagues he was on Navy duty in Cambodia at a time when President Richard M. Nixon lied to the public and said that there were no U.S. forces in that country. He even took enemy fire. In his words,

"I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and have the president of the United States telling the American people that I was not there; the troops were not in Cambodia. I have that memory which is seared - seared - in me."

(Of course, Nixon was not the president on Christmas of 1868, and Kerry's Swift Boat crew mates have stated that they were no where near Cambodia on Christmas. Kerry has recanted this story.)

For more, check out the John F. Kerry Timeline. Email it to your friends.
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It seems a bit ironic that two Texans in the current "military service" debate share the same last name. They (military researcher B.G. Burkett and good ol' "Wild Bill" Burkett) aren't in any way related , are they?

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