August 08, 2004

Christmas in Cambodia

Thanks to super-sluth Glenn Reynolds we know John Kerry claims he was in Cambodia in 1968. [What, he only needs a key to get into the library? I guess the University of Tennessee doesn't believe in security alarms.] The Swiftvets claim otherwise. Kerry Edwards and their supporters will have to do a lot more than ad hominem attacks to get him off the hook. They can't just send out a bunch of lawyers. They're going to have to actually address the Swiftvets' claims.

There are other, more damning parts of Kerry's past. What I think has not been talked about enough are the war crimes claims he made when he returned from Vietnam. Kerry has said he may have made some exaggerations, but he's not renounced the Winter Soldier lies he perpetuated. Then there's his being on the wrong side of the Contra-Sandinista war in Nicaragua. How about his advocacy of a "nuclear freeze?" Even more importantly are all those votes to kill a host of weapons. There are a lot of questions John Kerry has to answer.

UPDATE: John Cole lays out a lot of context to better weigh the Swiftvets' claims and Kerry Edwards' counter-claims.