If Kerry never signs the 180, he really can't run for president again, because he'd be continuously bludgeoned (and rightly so) by his doubters. I mean, how the hell could he face Russert if he STILL hadn't signed by then? He was such a fool to make his service record the linchpin of his campaign.

My prediction is that he'll never sign a 180, and will therefore not run for president again in '08.

Senator Kerry,

My son is serving in Iraq with a engineering battalion.

From what I can tell, he and the rest of his battalion are acting in a manner reminiscent of Kublai Khan ... the Khan that built stuff.

Just thought you should know

Sincerely,

Here's the injustices I suffered in the Army, and my letter to Kerry. I can't wait for him to read it on the senate floor.

Dear Senator Kerry,

While serving with the Army National Guard, I once had to eat a "Corned Beef Hash" MRE, which is just disgusting, and was not allowed time to heat it with the enclosed heater. This caused the taste to be worse that if heated (even after adding the Tabasco sauce!), so I couldn't even finish it, instead just relying on the crackers and cookie bar to get through the day. What happened to my constitutional right to a hot MRE? Of course this is Bush's fault, and the republican congress.
Another time, while stationed in Korea (1/506 INF, 2nd ID), I had serious diarrhea, and during a night mission along the DMZ I defecated in my pants. This was very uncomfortable, embarrassing, and smelled even worse. The stench could have given our position away, causing good men to die. Of course if it wasn't for oil, we wouldn't have been on the DMZ, and wouldn't have been in danger of being killed (or smelling my feces). So again I blame Bush and the republicans. And if they hadn't allowed me to eat the local Korean foods, I wouldn't have shit myself in the first place. So again
Bush=Hitler.
Another time, also in Korea, I was drunk and spending some quality time with a local prostitute in the lovely "Hooker Hill" section of Seoul. Since I was so inebriated, I forgot to wear a condom during our intercourse. I could have contracted a communicable disease! Why didn't Bush provide me with a condom? Do the republicans care about the troops? NO! I could have syphilis or gonorrhea right now and not even know it! And all this for oil.
I look forward to you reading my experiences on the floor of the senate. Hopefully it's not too late to help the troops now. I hope my experiences can serve as a warning to others.
Bush=Hitler
No blood for oil!

"We can extend military health insurance eligibility to all members of the National Guard and Reserve, whether mobilized or not."

Kerry is f'ing BRAIN DAMAGED. Yeah, let's have the entire island of Guam covered by military health insurance, OKAY?

I saw what happened when they extended Commisary and BX privileges to former Guard and Reservists on Guam. The locals -- and lots of folks on Guam serve some time in the Guard or Reserves, it's free money because they're never sent anywhere -- positively overran the stores and emptied them of food and electronics. Hey, there's a sale on TVs at the BX...but you won't be able to buy any because the locals already went in and bought 6 each.

Can you imagine what these "remote" assignments would be like if the military health care system gets opened up to the same groups?

Stupid. STUPID!

But then, John Kerry would just LOVE to screw the military some more, so maybe that's his REAL motive behind the suggestion.

That man is just stomach turning.

Later,
bbeck

elCid

LMAO.

"I blame Bush for my diarrhea in Korea"

Jesse Jackson could do something with that.

"No diarrhea for fascist South Korea!"

The comments here and over at PoliPundit are terrific. I hate to generalize, but I've noticed before that military people tend to be admirably rational and factual in their protest letters, even when they have every reason in the world to be titanically pissed off. And the fact that Kerry obviously didn't anticipate a million more requests that he sign the SF-180 shows just what a gormless, tone-deaf nimrod he really is.

Not only does he refuse to sign the SF-180, Kerry refuses to put the Dead Kennedys' "Holiday in Cambodia" on his iPod playlist.

Pretty low, but unsurprising. I'm sure the DU crowd is pissing themselves with glee as the submit made-up Bu$hitler tales of woe.

And I'm sure the MSM will leap on this like they did that other memo in recent weeks, right?

I wonder if I can write to Kerry for my bil? He is on a short leave from Iraq right now, and I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I was expecting him to be a tad reluctant to return to the ME- but nothing could be further from the truth. He loves his job, and wishes he could go back now (he's bored at home.) He can't wait to get back to Baghdad and start patrolling the streets again. Of course, he's an infantryman ... and we all know they are a bit soft in the head (and, I say that as the wife of an ex-infantryman.)

I'll be damned if *I'll* give Kerry the tear jerking sob story that let's him co-opt "For the Troops" like the rest of the liberals have co-opted "For the Children."

Not on this Marine's watch. Nothing he did during last year's campaign has pissed me off as much as this pathetic plea for military families to give up "evidence" that we're just victims of the Bush administration.

Fuck you, John.

Kerry has sunk so low with this latest ploy that my first thought this morning was "What an unbelievable douchebag!" This spurred me to some serious scientific research. I had to find out: is John Kerry the biggest douchebag in the world?

Google finds 13,000,000 hits for a search on John Kerry. This gives us our baseline Kerry identification level. Then, by searching John Kerry douchebag, we find how many mentions associate John Kerry with a douchebag. The result is 17,500. By dividing this number by the 13 million baseline Kerry identification level and multiplying by 1000, we arrive at the Douchebag Identification Per Thousand(TM) quotient (DBIPT). Kerry's DBIPT score is 1.35, a truly phenomenal rating.

For comparison, George W. Bush's DBIPT score is just 0.56. No other politician has been found with a douchebag identification score anywhere near Kerry's. Seeking other douchebags outside of the world of politics, I tried to find scores as high as Kerry's. I thought Howard Stern might have a high rating, not just because some people think he is a douchebag, but because Stern and his fans use the term "douchebag" so often in describing others. Stern's DBIPT score is, however, a surprisingly low 0.36. We have yet to find anyone in any field with a douchebag identification quotient as high as John Kerry's. We can therefore declare, until we find contradicting evidence, that John Kerry is the biggest douchebag in the world.

On W.C. Varones Blog

Here's the best one I've seen. Sorry, but I remember who the hat tip goes to.

CAN'T.....CAN'T remember. I need editors like they have at the LA Times.

"Ehhh-- military families. Buncha whiners. T' hell w' 'em."

Shanna, they bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into. I say, let 'em crash.