Posted on 05/27/2006 10:22:00 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Kerry Pressing Swiftboat Case, Long After Loss By KATE ZERNIKE
John Kerry starts by showing the entry in a log he kept from 1969: "Feb 12: 0800 run to Cambodia."
He moves on to the photographs: his boat leaving the base at Ha Tien, Vietnam; the harbor; the mountains fading frame by frame as the boat heads north; the special operations team the boat was ferrying across the border; the men reading maps and setting off flares.
"They gave me a hat," Mr. Kerry says. "I have the hat to this day," he declares, rising to pull it from his briefcase. "I have the hat."
Three decades after the Vietnam War and nearly two years after Mr. Kerry's failed presidential bid, most Americans have probably forgotten why it ever mattered whether he went to Cambodia or that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth accused him of making it all up, saying he was dishonest and lacked patriotism.
But among those who were on the frontlines of the 2004 campaign, the battle over Mr. Kerry's wartime service continues, out of the limelight but in some ways more heatedly — because unlike then, Mr. Kerry has fully engaged in the fight. Only those on Mr. Kerry's side, however, have gathered new evidence to prove their case.
The Swift boat group continues to spend money on Washington consultants, according to public records, and last fall it gave $100,000 to a group that promptly sued Mr. Kerry, a Democratic senator from Massachusetts, for allegedly interfering with the release of a film that was critical of him.
Some of the principals behind the Swift boat group continue to press their claims.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The NYT conveniently fails to inform that the release was for a specific person and not the public in general.
It used to be grounds for a duel or a gunfight.
John Kerry starts by showing the entry in a log he kept from 1969: "Feb 12: 0800 run to Cambodia."
Feb 12, 1969???
uh..... senator I thought you were in Cambodia on Christmas of 1968??? After all you said it was seared, SEARED, into your memory?
Wait.. my bad, I recall now. Christmas of '68 was postponed to Feb of '69 due to lack of snow.
And silly me, I got rid of all my Kerry files. And I had that good one where he was pressing for American troops on the ground to Cokie Roberts after Clinton signed the Iraqi Liberation Act.
LOL! You know, I almost deleted my Kerry files too but at the last second decided they might be needed again one sad day.
I'll lend you any links I have that you might want.
When (if) the time comes, I'll remember that and will start rebuilding the file for links. It will be just too delicious if he runs again.
arggh! you deleted the Kerry files??
arrgh!!!!
was hoping they were available for 2008; even if he didn't run for Prez, could use them for the Senate race...
We'll get those files back; and I'm sure a ton of them are archived on FR under the search term "Kerry".
Yea, like a three month (or less) tour in VietNam doesn't tell eveything! Scumbag!
“I remember spending Christmas Eve of 1968 five miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our South Vietnamese allies who were drunk and celebrating Christmas. The absurdity of almost killed by our own allies in a country in which President Nixon claimed there were no American troops was very real.”Article Kerry wrote for the Boston Herald on October 14, 1979.
Release dates for Apocalypse Now, USA; Aug 15, 1979
Plot Outline: ... We follow Captain Willard on his mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe.
[ I'm sure the similarity and timing is a coincidence. (hahhaha) ]
sorelooserman
If Jack Bauer fears you, then your tagline is a lie!!! ;-P
an oldie but goodie...
http://www.liveshot.cc/Audio/Most%20Crooked%20Lying%20Group.mp3
from
http://www.liveshot.cc
Good one! And Kerry was talking about President Bush when he said that, as I recall.
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Thank you for your "WE WERE SOLDIERS" Memorial Day Weekend update.
CBS - 9:00 PM Eastern/Pacific Time tonight
Paramount Pictures Website:
http://www.WeWereSoldiers.com
Book Website:
http://www.lzxray.com
Witness Photos:
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection
The Reality:
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1085111/posts
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Thank you for the correction.
"His aides are still looking it over."
It is odd how his former crew will assist screening records to find the so called truth. Kerry bragged about getting them reassigned to safer duties when he bugged out. After accepting such a deal they must be considered beholden to Kerry.
"Money Changes Everything"
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2006/05/28/money_changes_everything/
good info and response to the Times piece...
http://www.qando.net/details.aspx?Entry=3960
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