Re: Do you think Kerry was in Cambodia over Christmas?
It's incredible that defenders of the most notorious cabal of official liars since well, Reagan, can hope to tag Kerry for being "5 miles" across the Cambodian border on Dec. 24, 1968 (as Kerry originally claimed) or merely patrolling "in the watery borders" of Cambodia as Kerry's staff now admits.
Kerry raised his Cambodian experience to show that Nixon lied about the absence of troops in Cambodia ("we made a conscious decision not to send combat troops" to Cambodia). In fact, U.S. troops had been operating in Cambodia for nearly five years when Nixon told that lie. On this issue, Kerry has been proven right. The particular date on which he crossed into Cambodia before the U.S. was willing to admit it (that he did so no one seems to doubt) hardly seems material.
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