I get so pissed every time I think about that moron getting a Purple Heart for his boo-boo. If that's the case, I deserve a freakin' Congressional Medal of Honor for giving birth to my children. And I probably didn't whine as much about it.

"It comes on the heels of two other high-profile endorsement deals Kerry has signed with Waffle House and Flip-Flops, Inc."

Since when does a presidential nominee need to sign endorsements like that? Who's next? McDonald's. Ugh, makes me sick.

er ... I don't think that Waffle House business was meant literally!
Thank God our Glorious Leader was kept safe. Akthough he strained mightily to be sent to Nam, his squadron kept him back, citing the check box that reads "I do not wish overseas duty." Hey, it could have been Germany, but George W Bush, ever on the alert, decided he could not risk the life of the future President. God Bless his little heart!

How do I get a box of these band aids.

moltar -Altho' you probably idolize Bill Clinton who managed to dodge the draft completely. Y'see, Viet Nam should have ceased to have been an issue after 1992 since we elected a cowardly draft dodger over two genuine war heroes.

DITTO ON THOSE BAND-AIDS...WHERE CAN I FIND THEM!!

I'm living in Germany and being a daughter, spouse, sister and sister-in-law of military members I just wish you could see how embarrassing you all really are to so many of us Americans. Especially with a war going on with soliders being killed and wounded your making fun and showing no respect for military medals of honor. It's not about the metals ..it's about going to war so others don't have to and I'm sure not one of you knows what it's like to know you may never go home and for the ones who do...even more shame to you. With followers' like you it's obvious why Bush should not be the commander in cheif anymore.

Nikki - You missed the whole point of the post. I was not demeaning the soldiers. I have a nephew serving in Iraq and I'm very proud of him. I served in Viet Nam. I am making fun of John Kerry who in all probability did not deserve his first and third purple heart. Read more of my writing before you jump to erroneous conclusions. I would never make fun of a genuine hero or demean his service to his country.

You should be ashamed of yourselves for mocking the thousands of brave men and women who are serving our country. Your ridicule is apparent. I hope they are not watching the RNC this week- how do you think it will make them feel? Especially those who have earned a purple heart. Shame on you.

"Truth is constant, it is the story that keeps changing that must be suspect."
T.Ivan

If there's one thing I can't stand more than whiny liberal sacks of wussy rine complaining about our country going to war, it's those hypocrites who attempt to hide their treasonus contempt for our nation by cloaking themselves in the flag and mock support of those brave warriors who would die to protect it. This scum would rather burn our flag than honor those who dedicate themselves to defending it. John Kerry is a shining example of someone who abuses the memory of the scrifce of brave men for his own personal gain, and by pointing out his falsehood and exposing his lies and contempt for his countrymen, veterans and non-veterans alike seek to protect the honor of those who truly sacrificed for their brethren. So liberals, continue to expose your sinful selves to the world through your rediculus rants and blatant hypocracy so that we who have open eyes can continue to see you for what you are.

We are no embarrassment to Europe for things like purple heart bandaids. It's the silly childlike bickering between our two political parties that causes embarrassment. Mr. Kerry has issues to address (which he hasn't) about the time he spent in Vietnam. He is the one who has made such a big deal about this four months of his life. He won't talk about his 20yrs in congress. All you libs need a little tougher skin. We conservatives have been listening to Move On for over a year now. Not one cried about that. One slap at Mr. Kerry (with some merit) and he starts crying foul. Boohoo! Get a bandaid!

I am stunned by those pictures of those fuckers wearing those bandainds.

It's such a terrible move, politically. It's so stupid. What are they thinking?

If you get shot at defending your country and you only get nicked or you lose an entire limb, or your life, you deserve a medal and the eternal admiration of your country. Hell, you deserve that if the bullet missed you by 50 yards.

To wear those bandaids is an insult to every American who has served in the armed services, and to everyone with a family member or friend who has served.

Republicans don't support the troops. They exploit the troops.
 

How can people who accepted or even welcomed Kerry's traitorous 1971 testimony before Congress so righteously complain about "attacks on his military service"?

As a veteran I'm pleased. You right-wingers have forever forfieted your ability to claim you support veterans or our troops. Clearly, you support only troops and veterans that think like you do.

I want a box of those bandaids!!!!! WAHOO they're awessome. I wish I thoght of the idea.And the liberals complaining george bush is behind it wow.. thats stupid get a fuckin life! funny how moveon.org can make up lies and have stupid commercials about bush but when swiftboat veterans for truth comes out kerry has to go a cryin! Im only 15 and i cant vote, i wish i could id def vote for bush!!!!!! hes the BEST

My Father was in WW2 & received a Purple Heart medal for his service. He indeed deserved it! My family is deeply offended by these band aids & that they would be handed out at the RNC. They might have as well slapped every soldier that has fought in wars for this country & received a purple heart.

You're one sick, stupid sack of shit, Cripple. I'm glad God has afflicted you the way he has. You obviously deserve it.

The military has determined what standards are required for a purple heart, not some frustrated group of politically paid off liars and hot heads.
Wearing these republican sponsoned purple heart bandsids is a disgrace to the distinguished men and women now serving in the military. The Brave Mr. Bush should call for an end to this. His party leaders has not authorized him to do so, trerefore he will say nothing as usual for fear of offending.

I think it's shameful that chicken hawks are doing this while troops in Iraq are fighting and earning Purple Hearts right now. Maybe we should send some of these chicken hawk band aids to the boys and girls getting hurt in Iraq and see how long they laugh. Shame.

Are you liberals as fucking stupid as you sound? I am a veteran. I have a nephew in Iraq. I support all of our fighting men 100% Do you not understand that I am mocking Kerry's purple hearts? Are you that fucking dumb? You must be liberals. The first wound was self inflicted and now there is doubt on the last one. He was never hospitalized for any of them. He had no down time. He is a disgrace to our fighting men who earned real purple hearts. He used three suspect wounds to get out of Viet Nam eight months early. And all of you assholes, especially the ones spouting chickenhawk bullshit probably supported Clinton who was a fucking draft dodger. Tell me, was Abraham Lincoln a chicken hawk? Was Woodrow Wilson a chickenhawk? Was FDR a chicken hawk?

Go back to the DU where you fuckheads belong. Don't leave your troll droppings on my site.

I think that all the purple hearts from Vietnam should be taken away. Let's face it they were all fakers and whiners. Bush and Cheney had it right, those veterans should not get any veterans benifets. They should close the veterans hospitals to all but the WWII Vets and the Gulf war vets.

I saw a blind woman with a vets for kerry button and walking with this guy missing an arm. They looked about the Vietnam age, but do you think that they actually were injured in Vietnam? Probably not.

Denny I never miss a point... I do my research before I talk about issues and learn what's all involved.. and this issue is more then just making fun of one man. You should see all the wounded that come through here Ramstein AFB I don't care if they broke a finger nail they went to war and want to make their country proud....and I just hope they don't feel a shamed for earning a purple heart because they didn't lose a arm or leg. And J as an American you have no right to be ignorant with all the info available to you today ...people who think like you have never been in war or have any idea what it's like in war...just like Bush and Cheney. Congrats Denny... you have some really bright purple heart followers'. I hope your nephew is well and even if he comes home with a scratch I hope he gets a purple heart so he knows Americans are proud of him no matter what and knows we understand it could have been much worse!

I served over 20 years in the Navy and think those Purple Heart Band Aides are the funniest thing I've seen in some time!

Their democratic whining that the band aides are an insult to service members is crap! Don't even go there unless you served.

What hypocrats the democrats are! Any body think Whoopi Goldberg's DNC statement about democrats being the only ones with a sense of humour was accurate? Any democrat's fillet her over that?

As poor taste I might find it I do think it's hillarious the Dems are suddenly so shocked and outraged. This coming from the same folks who accused Bush of knowing about 9-11 so he could build a pipeline. The same folks who called it a war for oil are suddenly soooo concerned about the troops now. How do you think soldiers like hearing crap like that? How do you think the soldiers in Nam felt hearing Kerry compare them to Ghengis Kahn ? .
You're concerned about vets, yet Kerry in his own words said..."We will not quickly join those who march on Veterans Day waving small flags, calling to memory those thousands who died for the 'greater glory of the United States.' ... We will not readily join the American Legion and the VFW: John Kerry 1971." Today, he went to address them. Spare me your outrage over a joke and put a loony tunes band aid at your offended senses and look in the mirror hypocrites.

Don't even go there unless you served says Chris...and it's funny to degrade the value of the purple heart to make fun of one man...were you an American soldier? Because the soldiers' I see here are mentally strong and stand-up for each other. You know this campaign is the ugliest yet....I wasn't picking a side or making a political statement ... I know the wounded here at Landstuhl hospital are being awarded purple hearts and just wanted the people with the purple heart band-aides to understand they are making a bigger statement then they realize you're taking away the value of the purple heart by making it a public issue over one man and laughing because you are a party favor....it is sad when people stop trying to think what's best for their country and people because they will only allow themselves to be associated to one side of a political party. Chris thanks for serving your 20 + years but I know our military is a lot better without you now.

Nikki - Once again. Read carefully. I. Am. Not. Degrading. The. Value. Of. The. Purple. Heart.

I am ridiculing a man who degraded the value of the Purple Heart by getting one for a minor scratch that involved a band-aid. Is sarcasm lost on you? You have people with genuine wounds requiring hospitalization and here we have a man who received three Purple Hearts in a 4 month period and never once required hospitalization. Now it turns out that the first one was shrapnel from a grenade that he shot and the last one was a bruise from rice. How can you compare this to the brave men and women that you see? My heart goes out to them and I feel contempt for Kerry. There were men in Viet Nam who actually declined the Purple Heart because they didn't think their wounds merited one. We have a man who gamed the system and got three Purple Hearts (two suspect) so he could go home. I have no respect for the man.

"We are no embarrassment to Europe for things like purple heart bandaids. It's the silly childlike bickering between our two political parties that causes embarrassment. Mr. Kerry has issues to address (which he hasn't) about the time he spent in Vietnam. He is the one who has made such a big deal about this four months of his life. He won't talk about his 20yrs in congress. All you libs need a little tougher skin. We conservatives have been listening to Move On for over a year now. Not one cried about that. One slap at Mr. Kerry (with some merit) and he starts crying foul. Boohoo! Get a bandaid!"

What's funny to me about your comments is that you start out seeming somewhat mature, but you end up displaying the same 'childlike bickerness' that you think is so silly. Funny.

Kerry is a real dirt bag for throwing his medals away and and then claiming to be a war hero. He asked for this. He should have kept his mouth shut and not paraded his "boys" at the DNC like he did. He betrayed his fellow veterans by his own actions and words. They have a legitimate right to be pissed off.

John Kerry is a Girly-Man

I lived here in Germany in the late 80's with my parents and then Europeans had a look of jealousy towards us now it's more of a look of sympathy....I hate that but I understand it...you get a better perspective of issues and people when you're outside looking in. Thanks Denny for the site I had fun and to you Anon for reminding me how easy it is to get involved in childlike bickerness :)

As soon a we start caring "what would the Germans think" we are in big trouble.

So Nikki, "the military's better off without me"? You don't even know me or what I did.

Thanks for dishonoring me and all the other friends I have that feel like me. We know how to laugh in the face of danger and trouble, it's something that sustains you - that and prayer. Apparently you've never had to rely on either to get you through difficult situations.

All you do is perpetuate the "childlike bickering" because of an apparent slight to a group you're not even part of.

Get a life!

What you Bush-boot-lickers need to understand is that John Kerry is not the type of leader who will sit and read ‘My Pet Goat‘ to a group of 2nd-graders while America is under attack.

Calm leadership?

More like: SCARED SH!TLESS!

Dear I am a dickhead - Unlike Kerry who in his own words, sat in Tom Daschle's office for 40 minutes "unable to think". Seven minutes of calm leadership versus 40 minutes of "Oh shit! What the fuck are we gonna do?" Go troll somewhere else asshole. We don't need another irresolute pussy like Jimmah Carter.

Damn! The trolls are out in force. Military service became a nonissue when you fuckheads supported Bill Clinton who was a fucking draft dodger. At least Bush served. Read the fucking rules before posting on this site. Bush service is not something we discuss. My site. My rules.

How low can people be to mock someone wounded in combat?

Bob Dole was injured after tossing a grenade barely far enough. Why aren't the democrates calling for him to return it? Maybe because it is unAmerican to question the severity of injuries received in combat. That is, unless you're a republican.

What next, are the republicans going to make light of the thousands and thousands of veterans from iraq after the return without limbs? Probably not, unless they question the "intelligence failure" of Bushie.

Bush lied,
soldiers died,

Who cares?

And I'm an idiot! All I can do is parrot leftwing slogans.

Who cares Jerry? There's lots of people that do. But for many different reasons. Nobody is mocking anyone else except Kerry and his apparent inflated accounts of his woundings and then his ascerbic responses that people are questioning his patriotism when people say "come on John was it really that way, other people don't seem to think so?

Do you know what Kerry had to say about the suicide of the former Chief of Naval Operations Jerry Boorda amidst the controversy of him improperly wearing a "V" for valor on one of his ribbons? Read below, these are clips from newspapers at the time:

“Is it wrong? Yes, it is very wrong. Sufficient to question his leadership position? The answer is yes, which he clearly understood,” said Sen. John Kerry, a Navy combat veteran who served in Vietnam.

“If you wind up being less than what you’re pretending to be, there is a major confrontation with value and self-esteem and your sense of how others view you.”

Of Boorda and his apparent violation, Kerry said: “When you are the chief of them all, it has to weigh even more heavily.”

So what's good for the goose is good for the gander. Kerry stoked the fires he's being roasted over now.

Jerry Boorda improperly wore an insignia which he had not been awarded. The difference between this appallingly dishonest and disrespectful act is not even in the same leauge as any supposed impropriety of Mr. Kerry's.

John Kerry, has simply accepted the award given to him, via a supposedly impartial naval process. No doubt there are tens of thousands of vetrans who have never thought to question their own combat awards, after all, isn't that the role of their superiors? Do you suggest that we should audit all veterans medals, or just your enemies? Show some respect!

What this country needs is a discusson about the issues at hand. The divisive partisan politics being delivered this election cycle serve only selfish interests.

Do Americans care any longer about executing a vision for an always-better future? It seems like greed and isolation have become our national calling.

If half of the energy that goes into hate on this board were put towards building comminuty and identifying and solving problems collectively we'd surely be much richer people for it.

Peace y'all!

Fred - It was Kerry who brought all this bullshit up by making his four months in Viet Nam 35 years ago the centerpiece of his campaign since he cannot run on his lackluster and mediocre record in the Senate. He has been hoisted upon his own petard. How fitting for the French loving bastard. And lest we forget, Kerry demanded his first Purple Heart for what was probably a self inflicted wound. And now it turns out his last one may be fraudulent also. McCain told him not to run on Viet Nam but that's all he has.

Your bullshit denials about this only being about Kerry is demonstrated by your total lack of knowledge regarding how purple hearts are awarded, and ignores the fact that if John Kerry's medals were for self-inflicted wounds, then so were Bob Dole's (who tossed a grenade that bounced off a tree - or so he claims - and then exploded close enough for it to wound him). How many other vets have similar wounds, shithead? Do you think they'll give a rat's ass if you claim that it's only about John Kerry's wounds and not theirs? Truly pathetic. They will know - even if you can't seem to figure it out, judging by your weak justifications - that this slime trail you leave behind you will ultimately soil THEM. How many of the supposed "Vets" posting in favor of these bandaids have ever been wounded IN COMBAT? Very few, I'd wager. You should change the name of your site to "Grouchy old emotional cripple" - it would be more apt.
I could give a shit about how you edit this - because it's meant as a personal message from me to you.
Let the flaming commence, wingnut.

Like you really care about Purple Hearts since you decided to smear Bob Dole rather than defend Kerry. Way to go loser! Real heroes do not brag about their exploits like Kerry or demand Purple Hearts for self inflicted wounds.