Please help debunk anti-Kerry WP article ("Kerry's Cambodia Whopper")

[ochazuke]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27211-2004Aug23.html

Freepers are orgasmic over this rubbish. Article written by Joshua Muravchik of the American Enterprise Institute.

[NMDemDist2]

1. here

http://swiftvets.eriposte.com/kerrycambodia.htm

[WMliberal]

2. debunk it, okay

it was written by someone at AEI. They're notorious for rewarding people who make up data for models.

[DeepModem Mom]

3. Just making clear that this is an opinion piece, not from the news pages

[AngryAmish]

4. Why bother debunking?

If it harms Kerry it is automatically wrong.

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[MissB]

6. He was never there?????

Riiiggghhhttt.

Welcome to DU, and all that.

[kz1500]

10. Did or did not

The Kerry campaign headquarters come out and say he was not there Xmas, but that he was there later and just remembered it wrong.


kz1500

[MissB]

12. As opposed to "never there"

Which is what you posted.

Have a good stay.

[AngryAmish]

7. bye

[NMDemDist2]

9. read my link kz

and welcome to DU :hi: enjoy your stay

[DrFunkenstein]

11. Can't Argue With That Logic

Freepers are never known for posting more than a turd of wisdom.

[jonnyblitz]

8. there was this log cabin type in a gay chat room

that OBSESSED over this story. He believes THIS ALONE proved Kerry was unfit to be president. He even typed it in his bio on his chat room profile he was so obsessed. UNBELIEVABLE.

[DrFunkenstein]

13. Health Care? Iraq Lies? Overtime Rules? Changing Cocaine Story?

Jeez, there are so many places to go with Bush, just pick one.

[ochazuke]

16. I must have seen the same guy

Some post to the effect that this fact alone proved Kerry unfit. How utterly laughable. Like: "You said you wore your red and blue tie to the sales meeting on 3/24 seventeen years ago, but your ex-wife's third husband says he KNOWS that it was a solid red tie". "You lying, good-for-nothing BASTARD!"

They got nothing, people. Nothing.

[MichiganVote]

14. All those who know what they were doing during the month of Dec.

thirty or more years ago raise your hand. Nobody? Right, me too. Couldn't tell you where I was or what I was doing the entire month.

[MissB]

15. Entire month?

Try entire year. I couldn't possibly remember a month. But hey, he must be lying since he couldn't remember being near versus in Cambodia in December versus January.

The whole argument smacks of desperation on the Bush side.

[blm]

17. How about Bush's "And I flew planes for the next few years" whopper?

Kerry did ferry some CIA operatives into Cambodia. Do the Repubs really want to go there?

[BurtWorm]

18. O'Neill debunked it to Nixon. See Will Pitt's "For what it's worth" thread

This "Whopper" is debunked.