GIS Drop Smart Bomb on Kerry ("Halp us Jon Carry - We R stuck hear n Irak")

[sabra]

http://www.nypost.com/seven/11022006/news/nationalnews/gis_drop_smart_bomb_on_kerry_nationalnews_todd_venezia_in_n_y____and_ian_bishop_in_washington.htm

GIS DROP SMART BOMB ON KERRY
HILARIOUS HEROES FIRE BACK OVER DEM AND DUMBER CRACK ABOUT IRAQ

November 2, 2006 -- WASHINGTON - A group of GIs showed they are smart enough to take on condescending Sen. John Kerry - by deploying a hilariously misspelled sign mocking the failed presidential candidate's comments about their education.

"Halp us Jon Carry - We R stuck hear n Irak," read the sign, which was apparently the brainchild of a group of service members from the Minnesota National Guard.

The picture was first revealed yesterday on the blog Web site of Milwaukee talk radio host Charlie Sykes, who said he got it from a listener who had a buddy in the unit.

...

Without citing sources, ABC News in Washington said the photograph was taken in Talil, several hundred miles south of Baghdad, where members of the unit are located.

By the end of the day, the shot was burning up the Internet - and was the most stinging rebuke to Kerry's knuckleheaded flub.

[Deep13]

1. Of course, they really are stuck in Iraq.

[Norton]

4. He should go see them and find out about their education levels... n/t

[C_U_L8R]

6. True. True.

Irony is wasted on freeps.

[fishnfla]

2. This poor gal on the radio yesterday

" John Kerry does not know what he is talking about: If it weren't for the army, I could not afford to go to college, because um, I just didn't have good enough grades to get in otherwise...."

Bless her heart

[bluestateguy]

9. After 3 tours in Iraq getting shot at every day, a lot of people won't be ready for school

That has nothing to do with anybody's intelligence, it has to do with war making you insane and unable to transition into academic life.

[woodsprite]

23. Yeah, my MIL was just ecstatic that her SIL was going to get

his wisdom teeth pulled and braces on his teeth courtesy of the Army. She boasted "and it's not gonna cost him a thing!". Hubby and I both said at the same time "except maybe his life for an illegal and immoral war". Obviously, we don't talk much about politics or the war with my in-laws.

[bluestateguy]

3. Political neutrality of the military

Such a crack at Bush would probably result in a court martial.

[fishnfla]

10. Bagdad latrine graffetti

"here I sit buns a-flexin' ...'bout to make another Texan"

[Supersedeas]

41. Image a Banner demanding that AWOL Bush get them out of Iraq

[MGD]

46. While on duty and while wearing the uniform no less. tsk tsk

[Tellurian]

5. Maybe the Kerryites can BLAME this somehow on Hillary too!

Bill takes the Neocon Flames...So why not Hillary!

[emulatorloo]

16. Rush Limbaugh, several hours a day on armed forces radio

Put the blame where it belongs. . .the right wing lie machine. Piped in by the bush admin.

[goforit]

17. roflmao!!! this is hilarious!!! Kerry needs to go on Jon Stewart!!!

[blm]

30. I dunno - Hillary is SO susceptible to RW spin - she even believed BushInc

that Kerry was attacking the troops.

Oh well - Hillary and Kerry will share a stage for ten debates and will hash it all out, and all will be well.

[wisteria]

32. Well, if she would of come out and defended him and denounced

the Republican remarks as wrong then we would be in a better position to do battle. However, she reinforced the Republican lies.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

7. Meanwhile, back at the White House,

Bush sees the photo and says, "Uh-oh. Looks like Carry's joke is resignating with 'em"

[Tellurian]

13. Or...

Bush pointing to the sign saying, "Oh, Look they left the "C" out of IRAK!"

[goforit]

15. Realization of being stuck in Iraq will fester on and on and on!!! Hillary,

listen up.

[goforit]

20. Yep, the lightbulbs are glowing amongst the troops.

[SaneInSC]

8. .

Laughing until their various limbs become detached suddenly or their minds become forever polluted/corrupted by what they see and do daily. Laugh it up.

[Karenina]

60. Indeed.

Every soldier that participated in this little piece of propaganda is a DIMWITTED ASSHOLE. Each one of them IS stuck in Iraq and any one of them who is injured will return to an uncaring, irresponsible state where they will find themselves WAY DOWN on the priority list. I hope their 15 minutes will see them through. :eyes:

[BootinUp]

11. So according to this

report, it was taken in Iraq. This may extend the Kerry flap at least one more day.

[emulatorloo]

12. That's what a steady diet of Rush Limbag on armed forces radio will do for

you.

[humbled_opinion]

47. Exactly why we need the Fairness Doctrine...n/t

[Joe Chi Minh]

14. That'll be a neocon stunt, for sure.

[hedgehog]

18. I thought that the guys in that photo were laughing with Kerry,

not at him.

[Tellurian]

21. agreed! The Joke is on Bush!

unfortunately...

"HE DOESN'T GETIT!"

[goclark]

19. I saw it the the other way

I saw it as them being funny ~

:crazy:

[Stockholm]

22. They have earned the right to make fun of Mr. Kerry's comment

Limbaugh, Buscho, Cheney and the rest have not.

[gauguin57]

29. But they're NOT making fun of Kerry's comment. They're making fun of

Kerry's comment as twisted, manipulated and prevaricated about by the Neocons in Washington for political purposes.

Big difference.

[wakeme2008]

24. The photo was photoshopped

from another post on here yesterday. :shrug:

[William Bloode]

31. Nope not photoshopped.

I have the full sized 1.78m pic. It's very zoomable, and you can see brush strokes where they painted. What i find funny are the leaf less trees. Maybe a botanist could detect the fauna, and confirm or deny.

Anyone wants a copy of the full sized pic to check out pm me an email addy and it's yours.

[Demit]

33. A comment by someone who doesn't know how hard that would be.

For some reason that thread was removed so I never got to see the "proof" for this photo being shopped. There are limits to what can be done, you know. Photoshop isn't magic.

[TheCowsCameHome]

25. They certainly are stuck, no matter how they spell it, because of *W*

[area51]

26. "condescending Sen. John Kerry"?

I'm no fan of Kerry, but at least he served his country with honor in a war; unlike Bush, who turned tail & ran and didn't finish his military commitment to protect Texas from the Vietcong. :eyes:

[gauguin57]

27. Kerry has done a lot for military families and veterans, and this is how they repay him.

Nice. Go ahead, soldiers ... Embrace the lies of the GOP chickenhawks who PUT you in Iraq, based on more lies -- in order to secure a bunch of oil fields.

Real nice, troops. Turn on a decorated war veteran who dodged bullets, like you are now, to save people on his Swiftboat. Turn on the man who's working to make sure you get the equipment you need and the benefits you need as veterans when you return.

Maybe Kerry should just stop helping military families, if the troops are gonna turn on him over a couple of missed words in his reading of a script.

"I support the troops," but this crew is a bunch of deluded ASSHOLES!

[saigon68]

36. Yes a lot of them are mindless low hanging fruit

Like this Princess

THE MILITARY HAS NEVER FIXED BLAME ON THE THUGS WHO MURDERED THIS MAN

[Justitia]

28. So, they are having fun & don't mind being in Iraq after all???

If that is what they are saying - great!

Let them find some fellow soldiers who really want to get the FUCK OUT OF THERE, and take over their post.

Glad to see their steady diet of Rush Limbaugh and copious free time allows them to paint banners like high school cheerleaders to take potshots at the real enemy - American Democrats trying to get them home.

I feel real uncharitable about this group - I'd love to hear wtf is going on in their pointy little heads, you know, if they ever actually come home.

Meanwhile, I may just take the day off from all my political activities in working to end this insane war. It seems pointless.

[humbled_opinion]

49. Knock it off. Lashing out at the military is not the solution.

There are some real idiots on this board. It is funny hahaha now move on Kerry apologized and rightly so. Get a grip our men and women are fighting because WE through BUSH sent them now do something about getting them home alive but don't degrade them...

[Justitia]

55. Nice strawmen. Those particular troops degraded themselves.

I or "we" didn't fucking send them anywhere - their CIC did, and he intends to keep them there INDEFINITELY.
So, take it up with their fucking boss.

And if they are having such great fun, making banners deriding the only people to actually want to help them, well, fuck them.

I'm fighting for the troops who actually want to get the hell out of that nightmare.
The troops in that picture can keep cranking out all the amusing banners they want. Forever.

[customerserviceguy]

34. I thought of something this morning

on my way home from work (I work night shift in a computer chip factory), what if Kerry went over and met these guys, brought along some good food from home, and accepted the banner as a gift from them? Being able to show humility works wonders with the American public, and if he shows he can take a joke, it will go far to redeem him in a lot of eyes. Just a stray thought.

[stevekatz]

61. thats

The best idea I have heard anyone say on this thread,
And I say that as an active duty member of the USAF

[Arkana]

35. I didn't know deciduous trees grew in the FUCKING DESERT.

[Taoschick]

57. There are several species

of deciduous trees native to Iraq. It's not all desert and they do have forests.

[BigDDem]

37. Have to say this..

If people are more upset about a screwed up joke by Kerry than
getting into a endless war based on fairy tales and lies from
Bush then guess what...they are stupid.

[Porcupine]

38. Yes! Tour extended by popular demand......

I thought Kerry was RIGHT when I heard it as "study or may have no other options than the military." Being stuck in Iraq is no joke; it tends to maim and kill a high percentage of people who go there.

Oh, and the war is illgal, violates certain treaties, unconstitutional, and involves participation in war crimes. Yah, you're stuck all right.

[uppityperson]

39. I thought it was funny, that they were joining in the joke on Mrbush too

joining in on Kerry's joke

[High Plains]

40. Those soldiers demonstrated just how smart they really are.

Ridicule the guy who wants to get you out of there. Help the guy who might cause you to come home in a body bag from a failed foreign policy adventure. We'll see how amused they are next time an IED blows up in their faces.

[MGD]

45. I doubt those pogues have ever been anywhere near an IED

Maybe at a briefing in a tent on the base but that's probably it. Talil air base has two burger Kings, they're more likely to die from atherosclerosis than an IED.

[bling bling]

42. I've stayed out of this whole topic. But I have to say that

the soldiers mocking Kerry aren't doing themselves any favors by portraying to everyone that they are in Iraq because they consciously, intelligently, and personally made the decision to be in Iraq for tour after extended tour and this AFTER it became obvious that the whole WMD's thing was a crock of shit.

Any sympathy Americans started to have for the troops who are literally "stuck" over in Iraq just went down the drain...."oh, well, I guess they WANT to be there."

They should have seized the opportunity this presented and used it to their advantage rather than to their disadvantage.

Apparently they DO want to be there. Well lucky for them, then. Because the oil tycoon-in-chief that they're serving has no plans to bring them home.

Have a good time, boys. We'll see you back here once the Democrats finally get a voice in the government. In the meantime, you might want to stop feigning insult where there was none and use your minute in the spotlight to bring attention to something that could have a productive outcome to your benefit. But whatever.

[MGD]

44. It looked like a lot of rockers and chevrons in that crowd and some rank was missing

suggesting that officers were involved. That being said, these weren't a bunch of average joes, these guys have enough rank that they probably do want to stay as they aren't really in harms way and they are making buku tax free combat pay while deployed. These guys have never and probably would never otherwise make this kind of money so it's not surprising they want to shut down the party the questions the fiscal realities of this war.
edit: typo

[MGD]

43. The fact is, they have violated a federal law, a blatant Violation of the Hatch act..

If they engaged in partisan activity against Bush a.) while on duty and b.) while wearing the official military uniform, they would surely be pulling some extra duty at the very least.

[humbled_opinion]

48. Oh that great lets expand the controversy by saying the troops are

wrong for executing their first ammendment rights... You are joking right? I think its funny anyway.

[MGD]

50. No, I'm not joking. Those troops are not authorized to engage in partisan activity

while wearing the US uniform and while on duty. No federal employee is and, if they studied harder in school, they would have known that. They are breaking a federal law, and; what's more, if they were coming out in support of Kerry, they would undoubtedly be punished.

[OllieLotte]

51. Good post. Maybe you should call Kerry.

Perhaps he can get them arrested. That should solve the problem.

[MGD]

53. Perhaps after the election. nt

[uncle ray]

54. they don't have first amendment rights.

[brentspeak]

58. I'd just as well let it go

Even if it was done with partisan motive, they're in Iraq, susceptible to being blown to bits at a moment's notice -- they need a chance to have a laugh. Hopefully, later on they'll appreciate Kerry's efforts on their behalf, ie. fighting to increase their benefits, salaries, medical care, etc., and any and all animosity (if there is any; there might not be any) will cease to exist.

[Beausoir]

52. And..they don't have anything better to do with their time?

Gee...war is sooo funny. How hilarious. Yep, Bush is definitely their guy.

[Phredicles]

56. Well, it IS said that war is months of boredom punctuated by monments

of terror. There probably are long stretches where they're bored out of their skulls.

But I swear the armed forces all too often act like the Dear Leader's (and the Rethugs' in general) abused girlfriend. Their loyalty to the gang that's shafted them is both touching and baffling.

[AIJ Alom]

59. Someone post the Bush weapons of WMD hunt on that blog site

and every right wing site and then see who's laughing at the troops.