Tour of Duty refutes Kerry's Cambodia story

Tom Maquire has found the time to read Tour of Duty and has uncovered some interesting information germane to the Cambodian story. Kerry actually says (pg 324), "On occasion we had shot towards the border when provoked by sniper or ambush but without fail this led to a formal reprimand by the Cambodian government and accusations of civilian slaughters and random killings by American "aggressors." This is completely contrary to the Christmas Eve story.

Further refutation is found on pg. 179, "a fellow officer, Bernique, engages in an action "near the Cambodian border at the northern end of the Gulf of Thailand...unfortunately, because the action had taken so cose to Cambodia, and several of the dead had fallen on the other side of the border - which at the time the US Navy took great pains to observe - the incident was not so easily lauded, or forgotten. A furor erupted over Bernique's violation of the ban... and it appeared that he was facing a court-martial for his actions".

I can't for the life of me figure out why Kerry would lie on the record when he's published information that clearly refutes that lie. Can you?