The RW's (and Matt Drudge's) latest smear is saying Kerry lied in a 1986 Senate speech claiming he was in Cambodia on Christmas Eve 1968.
The Drudge smear here:
http://www.drudgereport.com/dnc91.htmAs Drudge is found of doing in this willfully incomplete broad-sides (as with the Kerry "intern" story), there are trivial but substantiated statements mixed with statements that would be damning if substantiated, but they're not.
Here's the link to a Boston Globe story that talks about that evening. (Kerry says their boat traveled into Cambodian waters.)
http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/061603.shtml "Open fire; let's take 'em," Kerry ordered, according to his second-in-command, James Wasser of Illinois. Wasser blasted away with his M-60, hitting the old man, who slumped into the water, presumably dead. With a clear path to the enemy, the fusillade from Kerry's Navy boat, backed by a pair of other small vessels, silenced the machine-gun nest.
When it was over, the Viet Cong were dead, wounded, or on the run. A civilian apparently was killed, and two South Vietnamese allies who had alerted Kerry's crew to the enemy were either wounded or killed.
On the same night, Kerry and his crew had come within a half-inch of being killed by "friendly fire," when some South Vietnamese allies launched several rounds into the river to celebrate the holiday.
To top it off, Kerry said, he had gone several miles inside Cambodia, which theoretically was off limits, prompting Kerry to send a sarcastic message to his superiors that he was writing from the Navy's "most inland" unit. "
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