Kerry the Compulsive Liar
Yo, ho & blow the man down - Kerry has been exposed as the pathological liar that he is & the manipulative trash that he is!
John (I'm a war hero) Kerry has been spewing forth from his mouth about his exploits in Vietnam ever since he decided to run for President. The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth has challenged Kerry on these tall tales, mostly recently through a televised ad. The book, "Unfit For Command", which was just released, details these fabrications by Kerry. The Kerry campaign has attacked these challenges as vicious, unsubstantiated lies. Of course they would - they need to cover Kerry's baloney which he so carefully constructed over these many years.
However, the Kerry campaign is backtracking now & parsing what he has said about one particular incident in the Vietnam War. The incident in question concerns his claim that he was in Cambodia during Christmas of 1968.
Herewith is the text from Swift Boat Veterans For Truth:
"If there is a consistent repeated story by John Kerry about his Vietnam experience, it is his story about how he and his boat spent Christmas Eve and Christmas of 1968 illegally present in Cambodia and, listening to President Nixon's contrary assurances, developed "a deep mistrust of U.S. government pronouncements." The point of his story was that his government and his commanders were lying about Kerry's presence in Cambodia on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. During a critical debate on the floor of the United States Senate on March 27, 1986, Senator John Kerry said: "Mr. President, 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 . . .", Congressional Record - Senate of March 27, 1986, page 3594.
By way of further example, Kerry wrote an article for the Boston Herald on October 14, 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 killed by our own allies in a country in which President Nixon claimed there were no American troops was very real." The Christmas in Cambodia story of John Kerry was repeated as recently as July 7, 2004 by Michael Kranish, a principal biographer of Kerry from The Boston Globe. On the Hannity & Colmes television show, Kranish indicated that Kerry's Christmas in Cambodia was a critical turning point in Kerry's life. The story is a total preposterous fabrication by Kerry. Exhibit 8 is an affidavit by the Commander of the Swift boats in Vietnam, Admiral Roy Hoffmann, stating that Kerry's claim to be in Cambodia for Christmas Eve and Christmas of 1968 is a total lie. If necessary, similar affidavits are available from the entire chain of command. In reality, Kerry was at Sa Dec -- easily locatable on any map more than
fifty miles from Cambodia. Kerry himself inadvertently admits that he was in Sa Dec for Christmas Eve and Christmas and not in Cambodia, as he had stated for so many years on the Senate Floor, in the newspapers, and elsewhere. Exhibit 27, Tour, pp. 213-219. Sa Dec is hardly "close" to the Cambodian border. In reality, far from being ordered secretly to Cambodia, Kerry spent a pleasant night at Sa Dec. Exhibit 27, p. 219. At Sa Dec where the Swift boat patrol area ended, there were many miles of other boats (PBR's) leading to the Cambodian border. There were also gunboats on the border to prevent any crossing. If Kerry tried to get through, he would have been arrested. Obviously, Kerry has hardly been honest about his service in Vietnam. "
And from National Review:
"A former member of John Kerry's swift-boat crew says the Democratic presidential candidate's account of spending Christmas 1968 in Cambodia is not true. Steve Gardner, who served on board PCF-44 under Kerry's command in December 1968, as well as part of January 1969, says that at the time, in the area in which Kerry and his crew were operating, it was not possible to take a swift boat to Cambodia.
"It was physically, totally, categorically, across-the-board impossible to get into the canal that went to Cambodia with a swift boat," says Gardner. "There were concrete pilings that were put in the water...plus, the Navy kept patrol boats there to make sure nobody went in. When I was on the 44 boat, it was a physical impossibility to take a swift boat into Cambodian waters."
Over the years, Kerry has said on a number of occasions that he spent the Christmas holiday in 1968 in Cambodia. For example, in September 1997, during a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific affairs, Kerry said, "I first was introduced to Cambodia when I spent Christmas Eve of 1968 in a river in Cambodia during the Vietnam conflict, and I found it to be a rather remarkable and very beautiful country...."
More recently, in a profile of Kerry that appeared in the Washington Post in June 2003,
Kerry revealed that he kept an old camouflage hat from the war in a secret pocket in his briefcase. "My good luck hat," Kerry told the paper. "Given to me by a CIA guy as we went in for a special mission in Cambodia."
In light of the recent Swift Boat revelations, the Kerry Campaign at first denied Kerry ever made statements about being in Cambodia, then stated that he was "near" Cambodia (yeah - 50 miles is "near"). An interesting point is that Kerry stated he was in Cambodia listening to Nixon assuring the country we were not in Cambodia - and this started his questioning of the war. But guess what - Nixon was not President in Dec '68!!!! And no excuse for faulty memory - remember, Kerry said this was
"seared - seared - in me."
Let's get real, folks. Kerry is a pathological liar. He lied about this event & what prompted him to "question" the war, he's lied about his medals & God knows what else he's lied about. Pathological liars are like that. If anyone can not see through his fake, phony, fraudulent character then they are to be pitied or scorned or they are just plain fools, idiots & losers. As noted in an earlier post, Kerry is a manipulative, over ambitious user of people who will lie, take both sides of an issue, play words games or whatever it takes to get himself elected to his one on-going masturbation fantasy in life - President. This guy is a dirtbag through & through. And I'll delete any comments aimed at Bush - save that for another post. Kerry supporters - try focusing on this issue instead of skirting it.
The Kerry campaign will do anything to have you buy in to the crap that he is a war hero & they will do anything to stop the "viscious lies", as they call them. In fact, Kerry's lawyers sent letters to t.v. stations threatening to sue if they run the Swift Boat ads. So much for freedom of speech from the Kerry fascists. But they jump with glee anytime Michael Moore or the radical MoveOn.org runs them. They are very afraid the truth may come out. And Kerry doesn't like the truth, as we have seen.
But oops! I may be wrong about this. After all - didn't Kerry say he still has the hat a CIA guy gave him on their "secret mission" to Cambodia? Shucks - if he could just find that CIA guy. Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
....from sea to shining sea