Kerry Changing Christmas Eve in Cambodia Story,

SabanFan · Aug 13, 2004

martin said:

i dont like kerry, and i even tire of this stuff.

this guy favors raising the minimum wage, is that that alone enough to prove he doesnt know what he is doing? i mean isnt his health care plan enough to make us not vote for him without dredging up this crap from years ago that is so hard to figure out what is true?

i dunno about that crap. but i do know that tort reform is better than government managed health care. and i know that a proactive unilateral stance on terrorism is good, and that whining about getting european "allies" on board is very very bad.
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That's the best "Why you shouldn't vote for Kerry" post yet.

marcmc99 · Aug 13, 2004

You embellish a story about going fishing or what you did playing ball in high school. This man is using this to make himself out to be a hero, all while insinuating his fellow soldiers were criminals. There is a very distinct difference between a little embellishment and what Kerry is doing. I'll refer anyone who sees is differently to SF's previous posts. I love how Bush lies and Kerry misspeaks according to most of the media. In case you haven't noticed, Kerry has misspoken on practically every issue of this election.

islstl · Aug 14, 2004

SabanFan gives the best account of why Kerry's changing of this story DOES NOT WASH. He was there.

You just don't mistake this kinda thing.

macv72 · Aug 15, 2004

I can hear Shirley Bassy(sp?)

Bengal B · Aug 16, 2004

"Bells will be ringing, the bad bad news

Oooh what a Christmas, to have the blues"

John Kerry

dallastigers · Aug 16, 2004

http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200408160842.asp

In light of the timeline and interviews with the participants, it seems likely that Alston's time with Kerry was at most two weeks, and, if Short's recollection is correct, as little as one week. Given that, it is possible that some of Alston's public statements might have left audiences with the impression that he and Kerry were together for a longer period of time. "I know him from a small boat in Vietnam where we fought and bled together serving our country," Alston said at the Democratic convention. "We usually patrolled the narrow waterways of the Mekong Delta, flanked on both sides by thick jungle." After combat engagements, Alston said, "Lieutenant Kerry always took the time to calm us down, to bring us back to reality, to give us hope, to show us what we truly had within ourselves. I came to love and respect him as a man I could trust with life itself."

In addition, Alston has on at least one occasion seemed to give the impression that he was present for Kerry's Silver Star-winning actions on February 28. "I know when John Kerry told [crew member Del Sandusky] to beach that damn boat, this was a brand-new ball game," Alston told ABC's Nightline on June 22. "We wasn't running. We took it to Charlie."

For his part, Kerry has sometimes left the impression that he was present when Alston was wounded. Paying tribute to Alston's service during a speech before a South Carolina veterans' group in May 2002, Kerry said, according to an account in The New Republic, "He [Alston] sat up in a turret above my head in the pilot house — firing twin fifty-calibers to suppress enemy fire from ambushes. We were extremely exposed — always shot at first.... On one occasion in an ambush his turret was riddled with almost one hundred bullets penetrating the aluminum skin. This gunman kept firing even though he was wounded — one bullet going through his helmet, grazing his head and another hitting his arm...."

That description sounds precisely like the incident on January 29, 1969 in which Alston was wounded. But Lt. Peck, and not Kerry, was in command of PCF-94 that day.

According to a report in the Boston Globe, the Kerry campaign website has in the past listed Kerry as being the skipper of PCF-94 at the time of Alston's wounding. When Kerry's military records were first posted on the site, according to the Globe, "the campaign summarize[d] action that took place on Jan. 29, 1969, this way: 'While Kerry's boat and another (PCF-72) were probing a canal along the river, Kerry's boat came under heavy fire and was hit by a B-40 rocket in the cabin area. One member of Kerry's crew Forward Gunner David Alston suffered shrapnel wounds in his head....'" The campaign website also listed two other incidents that took place prior to January 29 as having occurred under Kerry's leadership.

Peck, who would later sign a letter to Kerry written by the anti-Kerry group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, protested. "Those are definitely mine," he told the Globe. "There is no doubt about it." The campaign later removed the January 29 reference from the website
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macv72 · Aug 17, 2004

Stunning statement from Kerry's CO

Roy Hoffmann, a retired admiral who was a Navy captain in command of Kerry's unit at the time, said the candidate's past statements about spending a Christmas Eve in Cambodia can't be true.
"I think he just outright lied," said Hoffman, one of the officers criticizing Kerry in the ad, who is now aligned with Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. "He never was there."

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