John Kerry and his Cambodian lie — why it is important
Addison Ross
John Kerry has undergone so many contortions to avoid admitting he lied when he told the Senate in 1986 that President Nixon had illegally ordered him to enter Cambodia. (The Dem slogan seems to be: If in doubt, blame Nixon). For John Kerry to have successfully maintained his Cambodian fiction his lie would have had to be difficult or impossible to refute.
The Cambodian lie revealed that Kerry really is not that bright. To state that Nixon ordered him into Cambodia when in fact the then-president was L. B. Johnson was an incredibly stupid thing to do. If nothing else this lie should have immediately alerted people to Kerry's dishonesty and his intellectual limitations.
Once it was conclusively shown that it was physically impossible for him to have been in Cambodia on Christmas Eve 1968 his minions immediately changed the story, giving us four versions in all. This only served to highlight the original lie.
Now his hagiographer Doug Brinkley intends to revise his biography to accommodate Kerry's latest version of his Cambodian fiction, which is that he entered the country in January 1969. (How he can be confused about an incident that was "seared" into his mind, or so he told the Senate, is something he and his supporters have seen fit not to explain).
So far Kerry has been unable to provide a shred of evidence for his new claim, not that this bothers the leftist media or the sycophantic Brinkley.
No matter how John Kerry twists and turns he cannot escape the fact that he has been exposed as an outrageous liar. The real question of why he lied has nothing to do with details of the lie but his motives. It is my belief that he lied to aid the Marxist-Leninist conquest of Central America.
President Reagan's policy of breaking the Soviet empire quickly brought out Kerry's pro-communist sympathies. For instance, the liberation of Grenada from a bunch of vicious Marxist-Leninist was denounced by John Kerry as "a bully's show of force." He expressed no views on the regime's tendency to machine-gun suspected opponents.
When Reagan moved to oppose the communist conquest of Central America, John Kerry sided with the Marxist-Leninist Sandinistas, enthusiastically putting his signature to the infamous "Dear Comandante" letter that fellow Democrats sent to Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega.
Reagan's obvious determination to defeat the Marxist-Leninist drive into Central America clearly upset Kerry. In a public display of contempt for President Reagan and his anti-communist policies the patriotic John Kerry and Tom Harkin flew down to Nicaragua in 1984 to commiserate with the America-hating Ortega.
In a transparent attempt to scuttle Reagan's anti-communist policies towards the region John Kerry took to the Senate floor in 1986 and regaled that body with the calculated fiction that he had been forced serve illegally in Cambodia during Christmas 1968.
His argument being that 'illegal' actions like this had mired America in an unwinnable war in Vietnam and that Reagan was now doing the same in Central America. Both assertions were lies.
So John Kerry carefully crafted this premeditated lie in an attempt to swing the Senate against President Reagan's policy of defeating America's enemies.
Despite communism's bloodstained record and history of ruthless conquests John Kerry still stated: "There is no threat. The Communists are not about to take over our McDonald hamburger stands." This is how in 1971 he disdainfully dismissed communism's history in Eastern Europe, China, North Korea and Cuba.
Despite Pol Pot's genocide, the barbarism of the Hanoi regime, the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan and the atrocities committed by the Marxist-Leninist Sandinistas Kerry still stood by his outlandish statement.
This is why he used his position as a Senator to try and overturn anti-communist policies, slash defence spending and oppose every new weapons system, render the nation's intelligence agencies impotent by hacking away at their budgets while hedging them in with regulations that severely hampered their ability to gather intelligence. (I suppose this is the kind of thing every red-blooded patriot does when he enters the Senate).
John Kerry's attitude to terrorism is not so different from his attitude to communism. He called the threat from international terrorism an "exaggeration" and "misleading". How anyone after the Twin Towers atrocity can call a threat from al-Qaeda, or any other terrorist group, an "exaggeration" and "misleading" leaves me completely speechless. But this is precisely what John Kerry did
Deep down John Kerry does not like America and he certainly does not like American power. To him America is at fault, not its enemies. This is why his Cambodian lie matters. Examining it leads us to his record regarding this country's enemies.
Not only does his record demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that his is neither morally nor intellectually fit to sit in the Oval Office so do his recent comments on troop withdrawals from Iraq. To publicly promise withdrawals within 6 months of his inauguration will demoralise our friends in Iraq and encourage terrorists to intensify their murderous activities.
If this is how he is going to deal with Middle East threats imagine his response to the growing Marxist-Leninist to Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador. But then he has a soft spot for leftwing regimes. Perhaps he thinks they are "agrarian reformers".
If Kerry was elected and carried out his policy of surrender in Iraq which country or freedom-group in its right mind would ever again trust the word of the US?
His is a policy of continuous weakness in the face of terrorism that would surely invite even more terrorism.
Without a doubt, John Kerry is a very dangerous and very stupid man.
Note: I mistakenly gave the impression that Kerry invented his Cambodian lie in 1986 when in fact it was 1979. This is does not detract from the fact that he polished it up in the hope of overturning Reagan's anti-communist policies.
BrookesNews.Com
Monday 16 August 2004