"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
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"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
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"Lying" presupposes the ability to distinguish truth from falsehood.
Your
blithe dismissal of the need for corroboration (which would be readily
available in this instance if your recollection were accurate) shows
that
you don't even try to distinguish the truth from whatever you would
like to believe.

Ah, so I am not a liar, merely delusional.

Merely mis-remembering something from 35 years ago is a routine lapse and
does not constitute delusion. But to insist that a distant memory on a
partisan matter is necessarily reliable and requires no fact-checking, and
to cling to that memory in the absence of corroboration and in the
presence
of
strong contrary evidence, is to willfully dwell in a fantasy world.

I have seen no contrary evidence, strong or otherwise, to my memory of 35
years ago, nor has anyone even attempted to present any.

However, Kerry repeated his story about being in Cambodia in 1968 many times
over the years, even after the errors in it were pointed out to him. He also
continued to allege that war crimes by American troops were the norm, even
after it was pointed out to him that there was no evidence of that. He was
telling the story to the Boston Herald in 1979 (comparing his experiences
with the movie "Apocalypse Now"), which is a lot less than 35 years after
the fact.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/ar...TICLE_ID=40056 is one
reference for this, but Google on "Kerry Cambodia 1968" will show numerous
discussions of the many times that he has told this lie.

I have to wonder about the fantasy world you live in. You seem perfectly
willing to swallow anything that Kerry has to say, but anyone who disagrees
with you is either a liar or delusional.