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« What Are We Gonna Do About Iran? | Main | More on Najaf » August 11, 2004Christmas in CambodiaThis much we know: John Kerry lied on the Senate floor in 1986 about spending Christmas 1968 on a secret, illegal mission in Cambodia. And he's lied about it repeatedly. He's probably lying about it now. For more details on this developing story, check Instapundit regularly - he's doing some incredible blog-journalism and putting Big Media to shame on this story. His lastest post on Kerry's Cambodia lie is here. This story is important, for Kerry has been caught not just aggrandizing his own image a la Al Gore four years ago, but has been caught in a lie of major proportions delivered on the Senate floor in an effort to shape U.S. foreign policy. As Hugh Hewitt wrote: If John Kerry can be conclusively demonstrated to have lied about aspects of his Vietnam service, the media has to ask what else has he been lying about. The voters have to ask if he can be trusted.No, he can't. John Kerry was against the Vietnam War, then volunteered for it, then came home and was against it and claimed to be ashamed of the atrocities he and all the other solders committed, and he threw his medals over the fence (only, he didn't: They were someone else's medals). But now that he's running for president, his Vietnam service was heroic and brave and good, and his "band of brothers" were all heroes (except for the vast majority of them who are associated with that Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and oppose him). And John Kerry was in Cambodia Christmas Eve 1968 - before he wasn't. Posted in Kerry's Lies
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This gets to the heart of a staggering disconnect... and I have yet to see anyone state the question this bluntly.. In April 1971, John Kerry said, "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" In July 2004, John Kerry said, "...I am accompanied by an extraordinary band of brothers... We fought for this nation because we loved it... ... ... I defended this country as a young man and I will defend it as President." There are only four possible ways to reconcile these statements. 1. John Kerry was disingenuous when he called the Vietnam war a mistake. 2. John Kerry was disingenuous when he characterized his Vietnam service as defending his country. 3. John Kerry believes both statements, and therefore believes that defending this country, or fighting for this country because you love it, is a mistake. 4. John Kerry was mistaken in 1971, and now he knows better. In which case, Kerry needs, once and for all, to apologize to Vietnam veterans. Posted by: Chris at August 11, 2004 05:33 PMBravo Chris. Well disected! Posted by: Richard at August 11, 2004 07:48 PMJohn Kerry before his service was against the war. With firsthand knowledge that the folks back home would never know and that the government would never tell them, was even more against the war. Thinking something is a mistake doesn't preclude you from loving the one making the mistake. There wasn't much 'defending the country' to Vietnam. But when your friends are dying and people are trying to kill you, defending your fellow soldiers, fellow Americans, could be considered defending America, I guess. Failing to try to correct a mistake because of love is, what, willful blindness? Foolishness, for certain. Posted by: Brother Love at August 11, 2004 08:13 PMPost a comment
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