John Kerry political cartoon.
Another Kerry Whopper: Christmas 1968 not spent in
Cambodia
As reported by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth group, through their
lawyers’ letter sent to the television station managers regarding the
Swifties’ anti-Kerry ad... and now reported on
DRUDGE... John Kerry has been caught in yet another Vietnam whopping
lie.
Here is John Kerry’s statement, on record, from the Senate Floor in 1986:
“I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember
what it was like to be shot at by the 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.”
But Kerry’s Navy chain of command say it never happened. And at least 3 of
the 5 crew members from Kerry’s swift boat -- Bill Zaldonis, Steven Hatch,
and Steve Gardner -- deny that they or their boat were ever in Cambodia.
Kerry’s own biography, “Tour of Duty,” doesn’t even mention it. It’s
replaced with a story about a mortar attack that occurred on Christmas Eve
1968 “near the Cambodian border” in a town called Sa Dec and says Kerry
spent Christmas day 1968 at the base writing journal entries.
So, just what is “seared—seared” in John Kerry? It looks like some really
big whoppers are searing John’s conscience.