Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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"Can you explain why the Nixon white house did not use all these "evidence" against Kerry when the memories of the event were clear and succinct"....

That's easy. At the time John O'Neill was not working with the Swift Boat Vets. He was actively opposing John Kerry's slanderous anti-war activities. He knew John Kerry was calumnious & self-serving, using his anti-war activities to jump start his political career (in ultra-liberal MA with no worries about Tricky Dick). John O'Neill wanted to correct the record because Kerry had horrifically smeared every Vietnam Vet who served honorably. Kerry's lies placed our POW's at greater risk & that infuriated O'Neill. And O'Neill felt that Kerry & Fonda were two of the main people to turn America against the war.

Back then, it was solely about returning stolen honor & nothing else for O'Neill. For Nixon, it was about the havoc Kerry was causing across America regarding his anti-war activities.

And for the record, when O'Neill & Nixon met, O'Neill took everyone there by surprise when he told them he & his family were Democrats & he had voted for Hubert Humphrey.

Kerry's gaming the system & other service related lies would not become apparent until O'Neill & the Swift Boat Vets for Truth would get together last year (perhaps early this year). O'Neill got them together to once again oppose Kerry for his anti-war activities because they all felt that America needed to know the truth about what Kerry did to smear them. They felt he was "unfit" to be CIC of our armed forces mainly due to Kerry's anti-war activities. And of course, the liberal MSM had never properly informed America about any of this.

It wasn't until they starting sharing personal experiences & reviewing records that they started to see a clear pattern emerge. The reason was that each person only had a small piece of relevant info that, when put together, made it clear Kerry had gamed the system. And it took a thorough reading of Kerry's books, journals & Biographies along with the Swifties sworn testimony & what few records Kerry released (yes he lied about releasing "all" of his records too) to clearly establish many of Kerry's lies & deceptions about his service time. Kerry's own contemporaneous journals & quotes sealed his own fate.

The Swifties simply had no idea back in 1971 about Kerry's gaming the system regarding medals, etc.

O'Neill also had no idea about "Christmas in Cambodia" back in 1971 because John Kerry had yet to invent that lie. Amazingly, the one story John Kerry could have used to really turn America against the war, was also allegedly a seminal event that Kerry claimed it him turned against the war (per his own testimony, biographies, etc.). Kerry didn't mention "Christmas in Cambodia" in 1971, when he testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. It wasn't part of any of his many anti-war speeches at the time. It was used at least 50 times in public by Kerry, but well after the fact. The earliest I can document Kerry talking about Cambodia was a 1979 interview with the Boston Globe.

Go Figure. Kerry testified about war crimes committed "on a day to day basis with the full awareness of all levels of command". He pressed home how the Gov't was creating "monsters", "murdering" 200,000 Vietnamese every year & misleading America about the Vietnam War. Yet, he somehow forgot to mention the single event that turned him against the war - being ordered by Nixon (before he was President) to make an illegal trip ferrying guns & special forces on his infamous "Christmas in Cambodia" trip, where he engaged the Khmer Rouge (more than a year before they ever entered Cambodia) & received friendly fire from drunk Buddhists celebrating "Christmas" no less.

....Consider the history. In 1973, Kerry was a leader of
the anti-war movement. That same year, the American Left
went nuts when the Nixon administration admitted it had
secretly invaded Cambodia in 1969 and 1970 to roust out
Communist fighters.

It's hard to overstate just how big an issue this was in
1973. Cambodia was officially a neutral country, and it
was the contention of the anti-war movement that any
movement across Cambodia's borders constituted a violation
of international law.

If Kerry is to be believed, then this leader of the anti-
war movement remained silent in 1973 when he could have
spoken out about how he was ordered to violate Cambodian
neutrality as early as 1968. Which is why Kerry is not to
be believed on this matter..... NEW YORK POST

http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=20445033

So you can blame Kerry for not having yet inventing his biggest lies back in 1971 when Nixon & John O'Neill wanted to go after this horrific liar for his anti-war activities. Unfortunately, John Kerry waited until they became politically expedient before he invented them. And give Kerry credit for doing a good job of gaming the system so well that it took a thorough investigation of his whole record to expose them some 30 years after the fact.

John O'Neill on Nixon
http://viewfromaheight.blogspot.com/2004/09/john-oneill-on-nixon.html

Kerry's Congressional Record - "Christmas in Cambodia", "seared, seared" in my memory....
http://instapundit.com/images/kerrycambfull.jpg