MARK STEYN: Nuanced? Kerry's story just doesn't add up

The Daily Telegraph ^ | August 10, 2004 | Mark Steyn

[LibertarianLiz]

Thanks, Ivan. Bump for a later read to hubby.

[Ed_in_NJ]

I heard (Hume) that his spokesdweebs are now saying that he was CLOSE to Cambodia!

No Shiite -- that's what they're saying!

All this crap about the US being ILLEGALLY in Cambodia, and now they're saying it was "CLOSE!!!"

[Theresawithanh]

Kerry is incredibly stupid to bring this up as his major reason for being elected CIC and being exposed as a liar and a vile opportunist, or he thought nothing would come of his take on his Vietnam heroics, and he thought his lawyers could get him out of it.

As another poster (forget exactly who) states, sign the dam form to release your records!

Good post, MadIvan, thanks! I love Steyn.

[mewzilla]

Narcissistic personality disorder. Howlin looked it up. It fits Kerry to a T. Scary.

[mylife]

On December 24 1968, Kerry was at Sa Dec – that's well inside Vietnam, 55 miles from the Cambodian border – and waxing wistful to his diary about a quiet Christmas far from home: "Visions of sugarplums 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."

L0L what a putz

[tet68]

Al Gore, the first Android-American to run for president,


Bwhahahahah~!

Steyn, He's the best~Bump.

[Akira]

The mere suggestion that Bush might have been absent for part of his NG duty headlined the network news programs for days...will we hear a peep on this one???

[Arizona]

Outstanding article - it should be a 'must read' for every American. Heck I'd be happy if O'Reilly read it. And all the other talking heads.

Steyn is just plain brilliant. Thanks for posting this.

az

[what's up]

I have a picture in my mind right now of Kerry sitting on the floor in a dank corner of his Beacon Hill basement sweaty and shivery and waiting for this storm to pass.

Hope it's real.

[TexasCajun]

Definitely Television Ad Material!

[UltraKonservativen]

..Sin verguanza...That's why.

It's the Ubris, the Arrogance, the Ego with the sense of entitlement...He believes he derserves the presidency.
As all liberals, his arrogance justifies imposing his beliefs and his values (or total lack thereof!)on all of us.
All that oppose them are right wing knuckle dragging neanderthals with no appreciation of their NUANCED world.
A world of cowards, traitors, infanticides and perversion...NO THANK YOU.

[austingirl]

Fab article.

[KTpig]

Nuanced?

"If Kerry had exhibited the slightest trace of any interestingly complex view of any policy matter, you can be sure we'd have heard about it."

Classic Steyn.

[PeccaryTajasu]

Christmas 67 and Christmas 68, I was at Nha Trang. I don't remember my mamasan giving me a Christmas gift, much less celebrating Christmas. And yet the Boston Strangler insists that the South Viets were shooting at him celebrating Christmas as he violated the Cambodian frontier. Does this compute?

[wardaddy]

Bumpski!

[dawn53]

I don't mean "strange" in the way of his predecessor. Al Gore, the first Android-American to run for president, was weird

LOL!!!

[pgobrien]

Who else, could use the word 'hagiography', and make it work? Gotta love Steyn.

[VadeRetro]

As he told the Boston Herald in 1979, "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 being killed by our own allies in a country in which President Nixon claimed there were no American troops was very real."

LBJ was President on Christmas Eve 1968, but let that pass.

Pardon me if I don't. It has come to my attention that the New JFK likes to tell people that he served in "Mr. Nixon's War." Unless Nixon and Kerry were involved in a war I don't know about, this can't be right.

Nixon figures to have been inaugurated on January 20, 1969, about a month before Kerry wangled his way out or got booted out of Nam. That is, only for the last month of a four-month tour. Johnson sent Kerry to Nam and he was back in the USA before Nixon knew his way to the restroom with the power off.

[Mr. Lucky]

Off topic, but America owes a debt of gratitude to Danny Williams.

[tet68]

I seem to remember a Christmas or two before tet that had a lot of shooting but it was mostly Marines doing it.

Kerry's "STORY" just doesn't add up, I bet he's got a
Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry hidden some where that
he takes out and gazes longingly at ever once in a while.
"My precioussssssss."