Questions….Always Questions
More ponderables….
1. Why is it that “honest,” “caring,” “compassionate,” Democrats…particularly those who run for high office feel the need to lie about things that can obviously and easily be checked? I won’t even get in to the weird stuff like “I never has sex with that woman, Monica Lewinsky,” “I invented the internet,” “The move love story was written about me,” and such things.
A. Kerry as said that he didn’t use Botox last year. Any one with eyes can see that he did. Why lie?
B. Kerry has lied about whether he threw his Vietnam Medals over the White House fence: Why lie?
i)He said he threw his Vietnam medals over the White House fence.
ii)Then he said that he gave back 6, 7, 8, or 9 of his medals, including the Bronze and Silver Stars and three Purple Hearts and saying “Well, and above that, I gave back my others.”
iii)Then, In 1984, when running for the Senate against a World War II Air Force veteran, he claimed he had refused to do so after showing a reporter his medals and ribbons on display in his Back Bay apartment,and said the medals he was seen tossing, were those of a “veteran from Lincoln [Mass.], at his request.”
iv)Then, most recently, during his 1996 re-election campaign, he told the Globe that he only threw the ribbons pinned to his uniform. “Asked why he didn’t bring his own medals to throw since it was planned weeks in advance,” the Globe reported on Oct. 6, 1996, “Kerry said it was because he didn’t have time to go home [to New York] and get them.” The medals he was seen tossing, he claimed, belonged to *two* other veterans — the one from Lincoln and one from New York. “Kerry says he can’t remember their names.”
C. I really don’t want to talk about lying to get a silver star, that he personally nominated himeself for, for “The extraordinary daring and personal courage of Lt. Kerry in attacking a numerically superior force in the face of intense fire were responsible for the highly successful mission” when it appears that he actually shot a single fleeing, wounded, unarmed, teenage boy in the back.
D. Just last week saw him lie about where in was on Christmas 1968. in October 1979, Mr. Kerry said this: “I remember spending Christmas Eve of 1968 five miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our South Vietnamese allies who were drunk and celebrating Christmas. The absurdity of almost being killed by our own allies in a country in which President Nixon claimed there were no American troops was very real.” Then later, on the floor of the Senate on March 27, 1986, Sen. John Kerry issued this statement: “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.” He has told this lie about Christmas in Cambodia at least 50 times. However:
i) Nixon wasn’t president in 1968
ii) All living members of Kerry’s chain of command and three of the five people on his boat deny that they were ever in Cambodia.
iii) Khmer Rouge did basically nothing before 1970 and didn’t come into power until 1975.
iv) Kerry’s own Vietnam biography written by his hand-piced biographer places him 50 miles away from Cambodia on Christmas 1968.
iv) The latest part of the lie/cover up came last week when the explanation was, “Kerry went into Cambodian waters three or four times in January and February 1969 on clandestine missions. He had a run dropping off US Navy Seals, Green Berets and CIA guys.”
E. The most recent lie, and one of the strangest, in that it is so obviously false and so easy to check is the claim on August 13, 2004 on Kerry’s own, official website, that John Kerry is an Experienced Leader in the Intelligence Field ? John Kerry served on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for 8 years and is the former Vice Chairman of the Committee. You’ll have to look at it from google’s cached site because part of that quote is no longer on Kerry’s site. Why is it no longer there? Because John Kerry was NEVER, EVER the Vice Chairman of the Committee! It was a flat out bald-faced lie…and they go caught. The sneaky part is, a senator with a similar name WAS Vice Chairman….BOB KERREY.