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Ärende: Another piece on Kerry
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Kerry gets caught in another lie about his Vietnam service, and about something
that can be checked and verified pretty easily.  This guy just never learns to
keep his big, fat yap shut!




ELECTION 2004
Vets say Kerry made up Cambodia story
Has used account as evidence of war crimes, to attack U.S. policy

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Posted: August 7, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern



© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com 

Over the the past three decades, John Kerry has used a story of being ordered
to illegally enter Cambodia during his Vietnam service as proof of war crimes
and to argue against U.S. foreign policy, but a new book by Naval colleagues of
the Massachusetts senator charges the account is false. 

On the floor of the U.S. Senate, March 27, 1986, for example, Kerry attacked
President Reagan's actions in Central America, charging they were leading the
United States into another Vietnam. He claimed he could recognize the
adminstration's errors because he had firsthand knowledge that the Nixon
administration lied about American incursions into Cambodia. 

In a Boston Herald story, Kerry is quoted as saying, "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." 

But in "Unfit for Command," scheduled for release Aug. 15, John O'Neill, who
took over Kerry's swift-boat command, and co-author Jerome Corsi say there are
two problems with Kerry's claim. 

One is simply that Nixon had not taken office yet. 

The second, they say, is that during Christmas 1968, "he was more than fifty
miles away from Cambodia. Kerry was never ordered into Cambodia by anyone and
would have been court-martialed had he gone there." 

At the time, Kerry was stationed at Coastal Division 13 in Cat Lo, which had a
patrol areas extending to Sa Dec, about 55 miles from the Cambodian border. 

All of the surviving officers in Kerry's chain of command deny he was ever
ordered to Cambodia: Joe Streuhli, commander of Costal Division 13; George
Elliott, commander of Coastal Division 11; Adrian Lonsdale, captain USCG and
commander Coastal Surveillance Center at An Thoi; Rear Adm. Roy Hoffmann,
commander of Coastal Surveillance Force Vietnam, CTF 115; and Rear Adm. Art
Price, commander of River Patrol Force, CTF 116. 

Also at least three of the five crewmen on Kerry’s PCF 44 boat -- Bill
Zaldonis, Steven Hatch, and Steve Gardner -- deny that they or their boat were
ever in Cambodia. The remaining two crewmen declined to be interviewed for the
book. 

The authors say the Cambodia incursion story is not included in Douglas
Brinkley's "Tour of Duty." Instead, Kerry told of a mortar attack on Christmas
Eve 1968 "near the Cambodia border" in Sa Dec. 



John 

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