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Kerry and Cambodia

by John Cole|  August 9, 200410:36 pm| 11 Comments

This post is in: Democratic Stupidity

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Everything you need to know about Kerry’s Cambodia claims can be found here.

It sure seems like Kerry is lying nuanced.

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  1. 1.

    Oregonian

    August 10, 2004 at 2:24 am

    Everything you need to know about Bush’s latest Freudian slip can be found here.

    It sure seems like Bush is “straightforward and plain-spoken” (or dumb as a brick).

  2. 2.

    Gahrie

    August 10, 2004 at 4:21 am

    Hey you Kerry defenders……

    You’re missing something….HIS campaign now is saying he wasn’t in Cambodia!!!!!

  3. 3.

    ape

    August 10, 2004 at 7:01 am

    At the rate we’re going; AWOL’s service will start look better than Kerry’s!

    This ‘Through the Looking Glass’ logic is super fun: Like the Red Queen says, as time passes, valleys become higher than peaks. Alice finds this difficult to believe, but works it out by the end. I wonder if the American Electorate can adjust to it before the election? I would have thought that most of them still think that Kerry v Bush, 1968-1972, is Wheat v Chaff. [Except in a drinking contest, obviously, as various convictions attest].

    One would have thought that an incumbent administration might use the strategy of ‘running on their record’. I can’t understand why they’re not. However, the ‘Through the Looking Glass’ tactic is unusually brave and I am in full support. GO BUSH!

  4. 4.

    John Cole

    August 10, 2004 at 8:11 am

    Ape- What planet are you on?

    The administration is running on their record- all of this Camboida/Vietnam stuff is, if you can tolerate the bad pun, a self-inflicted woound for Kerry.

  5. 5.

    CadillaqJaq

    August 10, 2004 at 8:11 am

    Kerry, the Great White Hope of the Rabid Left, has now proved that most politicians lie…

    Those mental pictures of Cambodia, “seared, seared” in his mind where he was being shot at by Cambodians, Khmer Rouge, etc., probably won’t go away soon, no matter what the DNC and all the rest claim. The spin last night was that “he probably thought” he was in Cambodia when he was close to the border: LMAO!. THat certainly isn’t what he said on more than one occasion and was later published.

    He’s just another fuckin’ joke, the same as all 99% of all politicians: say whatever it takes and hope to get elected.

  6. 6.

    ape

    August 10, 2004 at 8:43 am

    Cadillaq – right.

    You remind me of another politician trying to play the patriot card and dealing from the bottom of the deck: Cheney in 2000 accepting the VP nomination:

    “Just before you settle down on the landing pad, you look upon Arlington National Cemetery…its gentle slopes and crosses row on row,” Cheney said. “I never once made that trip without being reminded how enormously fortunate we all are to be Americans, and what a terrible price thousands have paid so that all of us…and millions more around the world…might live in freedom.”

    Ahh..

    Perhaps Kerry’s memory of events was imperfectly formed in the cauldron of war. Cheney and Bush, of course, have no such excuse. Except the drink. I guess when you’re drinking and driving at the same time it’s a little hard to get a good look at those gravestones.

  7. 7.

    Steve Malynn

    August 10, 2004 at 10:02 am

    Ape, I can’t figure out if Kerry thinks he Kurtz or Martin Sheen. But, his apocalyptic memories should be as close as he gets to election.

  8. 8.

    HH

    August 10, 2004 at 10:03 am

    Bush’s “Freudian slip” like Kerry’s recent promise to “double special forces” for “terrorist operations.”

  9. 9.

    CadillaqJaq

    August 10, 2004 at 11:35 am

    “Perhaps Kerry’s memory of events was imperfectly formed in the cauldron of war.”

    Perhaps… but what does it say about his claim to being in Cambodia in 1968 and being shot at while Richard M. Nixon was president? It appears that Kerry says whatever sounds the best at the time, veracity be damned.

    My “imperfectly formed” memory has Nixon being inaugurated in January of 1970. More than likely, the stuff Kerry was smoking was better than mine.

    BTW, you remind me of no one.

  10. 10.

    CadillaqJaq

    August 10, 2004 at 11:37 am

    oops!

    Check that “1970” and make it 1969… math was never one of my strong suits.

  11. 11.

    ape

    August 10, 2004 at 12:05 pm

    the date of Nixon’s election is clearly a very important one, about which, however, even the mightiest are confused after thirty or more years.

    If the election is to be based on a memory test, perhaps a more recent event could be used:

    “Where were you when the planes hit the buildings”:

    AWOL has been a little more confused: “On December 4, 2001, Bush was asked, “How did you feel when you heard about the terrorist attack?” Bush replied, “I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower-the TV was obviously on. And I used to fly myself, and I said, well, there’s one terrible pilot. I said, it must have been a horrible accident. But I was whisked off there. I didn’t have much time to think about it ‘ ” Bush repeated the same story on January 5, 2002, stating, “First of all, when we walked into the classroom, I had seen this plane fly into the first building. There was a TV set on. And you know, I thought it was pilot error, and I was amazed that anybody could make such a terrible mistake ……
    This is false. Nobody saw the jetliner crash into the first tower on television until a videotape surfaced a day later. What’s more, Bush’s memory not only contradicts every media report of that morning, it also contradicts what he said on the day of the attack. In his speech to the nation that evening, Bush said, “Immediately following the first attack, I implemented our government’s emergency response plans.” Again, this statement has never been satisfactorily explained. No one besides Bush has ever spoken of these “emergency plans;’ and the mere idea of their implementation is contradicted by Bush’s claim that at the time, he believed the crash to have been a case of pilot error.”

    And I think we all know what he did “immediately”. Interestingly, the facts about which AWOL has been confused are rather more cogent to the story than those baffling Kerry.

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