jdm / wxjames:

This story will get legs IF Kerry is directly asked to respond to the Cambodia episode as a key piece of evidence in his statement on the floor of the Senate: that it expressed personal experience of covert / unauthorized military activities on behalf of the NIXON administration as the danger of supporting the Contras… Noting that the Khymer Rouge were not an identifiable military unit in 1968, Nixon was not President and his statement makes NO sense if he was just “near” Cambodia rather than in it.

Would he now stipulate that he clearly had no idea what he was talking about when he was addressing the Senate?

That the story has been repeated in various forms over the years beyond his Senate speech (Op ed, story in WaPo, Review of Apoc..Now, etc…) so no way to say it was a slip of the tongue.

Someone in the MSM has to take this line of questioning…