John Kerry, Traitor or Liar, You Make the Call

MSNBC - Transcript for Jan. 30:

"SEN. KERRY: We were right on the border, Tim. What I explained to people and I told this any number of times, did I go into Cambodia on a mission? Yes, I did go into Cambodia on a mission. Was it on that night? No, it was not on that night. But we were right on the Cambodian border that night. We were ambushed there, as a matter of fact. And that is a matter of record, and we went into the rec-- you know, it's part of the Navy records. It's been documented by the other guys who were on my boat. And Steve Gardner, frankly, doesn't know where we were. It wasn't his job, and, you know, he wasn't involved in that. But we did go five miles into Cambodia. It was on another day. I jumbled the two together, but we were five miles into Cambodia. We went up on a mission with CIA agents--I believe they were CIA agents--CIA Special Ops guys. I even have some photographs of it, and I can document it. And it has been documented.
MR. RUSSERT: You'll release those photographs?
SEN. KERRY: I think they were shown. I gave them to the campaign, but...
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.
MR. RUSSERT: Nixon was president-elect, not president, at that particular time. He wasn't sworn in until...
SEN. KERRY: In 1968, he wasn't sworn in yet.
MR. RUSSERT: But "

Emphasis Mine. The words speak for themselves but consider them carefully. Read the whole transcript on the link if you must. Here is what you have to conclude:

One, John Kerry lied when he said he spent "Christmas in Cambodia" during the election. It has been strongly asserted that he lied by the Swiftboat Veterans, but he admits that he lied in this transcript. "No it was not on that night." He was maintaining it was Christmas (or Christmas Eve) in both his biography and on the Campaign trail. Okay so if we conclude he's a liar, and he's self promoting with this story, that is one thing.

Two, if he is telling the truth, that he "delivered weapons to the Khmer Rouge", he is a traitor. I don't know who the "CIA" guy was, but he wasn't on our side. The Khmer Rouge, for those who don't know, were Cambodian Communists. We were fighting the Communists in Viet Nam, and we did not, at any time I can discover, arm or provide assistance to the Cambodian Communists. Nixon later bombed Cambodia to stop the flow of arms down the Ho Chi Minh trail. The Khmer Rouge were later responsible for the "killing fields" in Cambodia, killing over one million of their fellow citizens.

Okay, you can figure this one out. It's beyond me why Kerry, this vacuous puff bag of a man, has gotten a pass from the Press (SMSM) so long. In the same interview at least Tim Russert pressed him to sign the DOD180 form to release all of his military records. Good for you Tim, a bit late, but good for you.

Will anyone in the Senate have the stones to investigate Kerry, and his activities in Paris with the North Vietnamese? Was he still a Naval Officer? Was it treason? Maybe we can get the Vietnamese to shed some light on this?