January 31, 2005

JOHN KERRY'S WORLD: IT'S ALWAYS XMAS IN CAMBODIA

John Kerry remains a hero in his own mind. His magical mystery Xmas in Cambodia in 1968 now includes a new fantasy element. Not only was he shot at by the Khmer Rouge, but he was secretly running arms to them!

"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, that says to me, before we send another generation into harm's way we have a responsibility in the U.S. Senate to go the last step, to make the best effort possible in order to avoid that kind of conflict..."
--John Kerry, on the Senate floor, 132 Cong.Rec. S3564-02.

MEET THE PRESS: 1-30-2005

MR. RUSSERT: And you have a hat that the CIA agent gave you?

SEN. KERRY: "I still have the hat that he gave me, and I hope the guy would come out of the woodwork and say, "I'm the guy who went up with John Kerry. We delivered weapons to the Khmer Rouge on the coastline of Cambodia." We went out of Ha Tien, which is right in Vietnam. We went north up into the border. And I have some photographs of that, and that's what we did. So, you know, the two were jumbled together, but we were on the Cambodian border on Christmas Eve, absolutely..."