Posted on 11/02/2006 5:43:44 AM PST by kellynla
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.
The picture soon raced around the Internet, and it got much of the nation chuckling when it went up on Drudge Report later in the day.
Staff Sgt. Erik Holtan, a member of the Minnesota National Guard, says he saw the picture and recognized the insignia as that of his fellow Minnesota guardsmen - and he immediately put it up on his own blog site.
"It's awesome," he told The Post. "The troops over there have to be livid because of what [Kerry] said. I don't know why he would say that."
Holtan, who works at Guard headquarters, said he believes the troops behind the Kerry sign are in Iraq, since all the members of the unit in the shot - the 1/34 Brigade Troops Battalion - have been deployed.
He said he can see a unit insignia on one of the vehicles in the background and those vehicles have also gone to Iraq.
Fox News Channel quoted Army officials saying that the picture looked authentic and appeared to be taken in Iraq.
"We are always amazed at the creativity of our troops," one Army official told Fox.
Without citing sources, ABC News in Washington said the photograph was taken in Talil,
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You know this has to be genuine. I don't have to explain why.
The lowest private is smarter and better than John Kerry. What a POMPOUS ASS.
apologize or don't apologize, just keep it at the top of the news cycle
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I saw it too. Very funny...
Anybody got a picture of the sign?
Free Republic strikes again!!!
Chuckling? It was more like rolling on the floor in uncontrolled belly laughing...laughing at John Kerry and the Democrat scum that march with him.
I could have sworn Hugh Hewitt said he was one of the first who POSTED it on FR.....Is Hugh a Freeper?
...apologized "to any service member, family member, or American who was offended.
If this is to be taken literally, it would mean the service members and their families are NOT AMERICANS
Now normally I would not pick apart a statement such as this,(well, I would, but that's another thing entirely) but the gist of Kerry's whole schtick was that one should be well educated. Since the statement was written, not spoken, there was plenty of time to assure that it was exactly correct. Why use that particular phrasing when it could have been stated any number of ways?
And why just apologize to anyone who was offended? That implies that he believes what he said was correct - he is only acknowledging that it might have been offensive to some.
I'm sad they didn't add "Demikrat pahtee" to the sign as well...that would have nationalized Kerry's gaff across the entire electorate!
BWAHAHAHA...the moonbats over at the DUmp were certain the picture was photoshopped.
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