Beware the Internet

According to Tom Maguire, an internet researcher has uncovered an AP article from 1992 in which Kerry claims to have served six months in Vietnam instead of four and to have made routine patrols into Cambodia.

But for Kerry, who spent six violent months commanding a patrol boat on the Mekong River, there's always been a ring of truth to allegations of abandoned Americans. By Christmas 1968, part of Kerry's patrol extended across the border of South Vietnam into Cambodia.

"We were told, `Just go up there and do your patrol. Everybody was over there (in Cambodia). Nobody thought twice about it," Kerry said. One of the missions, which Kerry, at the time, was ordered not to discuss, involved taking CIA operatives into Cambodia to search for enemy enclaves.

"I can remember wondering, `If you're going to go, what happens to you,"' Kerry said.

All I can say is that Kerry must have felt that no one would ever question him about these lies.

Now that the Swiftvets have called his bluff, I have no idea what will happen next. Could Kerry bow out of the race? How can he combat these charges and still run a successful race? I'm at a loss for words.