THE TROOPS ANSWER KERRY (PHOTO) "HALP US JON CARRY - WE R STUCK HEAR N IRAK"

620 WTMJ Newsradio ^ | 11/1/06 | Charlie Sykes

[Jean S]

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 1, 2006, 10:59 a.m.
THE TROOPS ANSWER KERRY

[RacerX1128]

MEMORIALIZED ON YOUTUBE

Awesome!

[stand watie]

very true!

i understand that picture is all over Iraq!

free dixie,sw

[Marine_Uncle]

Yes. I saw the post earlier on. Been working on my computer to fix a lot of recent problems I developed, and have not been on the boards to much. Thanks.

[VOA]

Kerry quit the campaign trail yesterday. He is finished.
Toast. Burnt toast. 'Nuff said

I hope you're right. In a sane world, that would be the outcome.

But I won't be suprised if he becomes a "martyr" for the leftists
of the USA (well, and of France too!).

[Valin]

Don't know if this has been posted but from the lads at Power Line
Pride of Minnesota

http://powerlineblog.com/archives/015725.php

I hadn't intended to post this classic photo, simply because I assume pretty much everyone has already seen it. But we have received several messages from readers identifying at least some of the eight soldiers as members of the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 34th Infantry Division (MN National Guard). They're smart, they're funny as hell, and they're giving it up for the USA. We salute them with hometown pride.



Kerry, meanwhile, has finally apologized on his web site. It's one of those "sorry I was misinterpreted" apologies, but as some poet once said, 'twill do, 'twill do. If he'd done this 24 hours ago, he'd have been fine.

UPDATE: Victor Davis Hanson salutes the Pride of Minnesota:

One of the things I love about America is the spontaneous brilliance and humor that undermine all pretension. No better example was that wonderful banner from our brave and ingenious soldiers in Iraq...

20 million Americans must have seen it all over the Internet, and nothing sums up the nothingness of Kerryism better than those smiling soldiers. After seeing that, no wonder he's offering deer-in-the headlights apologies. This is a man who remembers everything and learns nothing.

Then there was the finger-in-the wind initial Democratic response: their supposedly slight ill breeze suddenly became a Katrina hurricane, and, Presto!, they were all over the airwaves demanding from poor Kerry the apologies that just a few hours ago they thought were not necessary.

As for Kerry — how quick the 24-hour metamorphosis from smugness to defiance to purported contriteness! At his earlier blame-the-wing-nuts-and-Rush-Limbaugh press conference, he thought he was a strutting, strong-jawed Napoleonic general leading his troops to rout the evil Bush-Cheney Prussians, and then, alone, suddenly turned around — and Mein Gott in Himmel!! — his Old Guard was heading for the hills.

[Jean S]

Valin, you should post that as new thread. Some have questioned if this was an authentic pic, it is, but that would be the icing on the cake.

[Spruce]

If you zoom in on the fender of the vehicle on the left, these folks appear to be from the 1-34 STB, Minnesota National Guard.

[JPJones]

bump! LOl

[Argh]

That picture is such a scream!

[Valin]

I would...however I am HTML illiterate (yes yes I know it's easy but....)and it really needs the photo. However if someone else wanted to it would be my pleasure to bump it.

[whodeani]

"If you zoom in on the fender of the vehicle on the left, these folks appear to be from the 1-34 STB, Minnesota National Guard."

You are correct. Powerline has a post about it.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/

[PhilDragoo]

[JPJones]

LOL!! That's the best photo!

[Valin]

See reply 705.

The Minnesota Cheer

Lingonberries Lingonberries
Lefse Lefse
We're Minnesota boys
Ya Sure, You Betcha!

[ajolympian2004]

Powerline gets the ID on the Unit that made the banner -

Pride of Minnesota

I hadn't intended to post this classic photo, simply because I assume pretty much everyone has already seen it. But we have received several messages from readers identifying at least some of the eight soldiers as members of the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 34th Infantry Division (MN National Guard). They're smart, they're funny as hell, and they're giving it up for the USA. We salute them with hometown pride.

http://www.minnesotanationalguard.org/index.php

Their contact email address - kevin.olson@mn.ngb.army.mil
(Public Affairs)

http://powerlineblog.com/archives/015725.php

[Salvation]

Great photo. God bless our troops.

[Shelayne]

Darned proud to be a Minnesotan right now! **grin**

[zot]

Thanks for the ping. Great photo, and those troops are getting a lot of mileage out of it. I'll bet they have no idea how far it has gone.

[paulat]

Heavens...what on earth are you talkin about?

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!