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I went to meet with the members of the Security Council in the week before we voted. I went to New York. I talked to all of them to find out how serious they were about really holding Saddam Hussein accountable.

All, some, a group meeting, private meetings - who knows? Integrity, integrity, integrity.

My question - does Kerry know he is lying, or is his memory really that bad? A quick reprise of his memory failures would surely include:

(1) the adventure in Cambodia which was "seared" into his memory;

(2) the fateful November 1971 Kansas City meeting at which the Vietnam Veterans Against the War talked about assasinating some Senators;

(3) his now-forgotten early opposition to Reagan's liberation of Grenada;

(4) his date of discharge from the military (OK, that was a short term memory failure - he told the Harvard Crimson in 1970 that he had been discharged, and stayed with that story until his records caught up with him).

Look, I would like to think I have had an interesting and varied life. But as full as it has been, I am sure that I would still find a heated discussion of the assassination of some US Senators to be quite memorable. I would probably remember when I left the service (I remember when I graduated from high school!). And I am sure that if people had been shooting at me on Christmas Eve while I was on a covert mission, I would not get confused about it.

On Grenada, Kerry might have forgotten that he hated everything Reagan did and the air he exhaled - from time to time lately, I have actually slipped and said something nice about Bill Clinton, so how can I judge another?

As to meeting with the Security Council, my guess is that Kerry goes to so many meetings, and these foreigners to whom he is constantly reaching out must all be shorter than he, and they're all speaking languages only Teresa understands... it probably becomes a blur.

But all that said, this one is absolutely inexplicable: "I was 30 yards away from Billy Buckner in that famous Shea Stadium game in '86."

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