Posted on 12/23/2004 9:02:37 PM PST by proudpapa
I hope this message finds you and your loved ones enjoying the holidays. I have been thinking a lot about what our johnkerry.com community can do to mark the end of what has been an extraordinary year...
So, in addition to thanking you once again for all you have done, I'm writing to invite your participation in one final 2004 act of collective generosity. As a soldier, I remember how much it meant to hear from loved ones - especially at the holidays. So, I thought you and I could work together to make it easier for our soldiers serving in Iraq to phone home and hear a friendly voice.
We've found a program that does just that. Operation Phone Home is run by the USO, which has been an extraordinary friend to American soldiers for decades. The USO buys phone cards at cost and provides them to our soldiers free of charge. You can help the USO help our troops this holiday season right here:
http://www.uso.org/carddonations
In January, I will go to Iraq to see the situation firsthand and personally visit with our courageous troops who are serving America so well. Nothing would please me more than telling them that hundreds of thousands of us have expressed our thanks to them in this concrete and personal way.
Your gift can help a soldier phone home.
http://www.uso.org/carddonations
In the New Year, I will be writing you about our 2005 projects and priorities. In the meantime, I hope you will enjoy this special time of year. Thanks so much for your constant acts of friendship and your special consideration of this request.
Sincerely,
John Kerry
P.S. There are 140,400 U.S. military members serving in Iraq. Any calls they make home to those anxiously awaiting their safe return are at their own expense. A gift of $100 will provide 20 soldiers with a 100-minute phone card. A $1,000 donation would do the same for 200 soldiers. Please help. A friendly and familiar voice can mean so much to a soldier serving America so far away from home.
http://www.uso.org/carddonations
I lost my decoder. Can someone please translate the secret message for me?
I do hope that someone on John F'in Kerry's staff has informed him that even now, at this late date, it is far from impossible for him to end up being fragged by his own troops. Of course that would be a terrible thing.
On the other hand, Kerry might be more at home visiting one of the many insurgent groups over there to convey the good wishes of SO many liberal thinking Americans, and perhaps return to America to talk up the "reasonable" peace plan of the various terrorist groups operating in Iraq.
After all, he's had practice.
Well, maybe Kerry is exhibiting a bit of remorse over his turning against his fellow Vietnam war veterans and aiding Hanoi. A phone card? He has a long way to go. Maybe an apology to the Vietnam Vets would be a good start.
As a soldier, I remember how much it meant to hear from loved ones - especially at the holidays Christmas when I was in Cambodia. :)
God bless our troops and familes and our leaders.
Or is he going to brag to the troops about the phones cards they got from someone else who contributed.
It wasn't HIS idea anyway. The program was already in place and he's jumping on the band wagon for the glory.
I think he's going over to negotiate privately with Zarqawi.
Ain't it so sweet when billionaires ask the general public to donate the money they don't have, so they can take credit for raising the money.
Hey JKerry.... you could personally fund every soldier with a phone card and never even notice the missing income.
c'mon John be a sport, and we'll focus on other areas where our soldiers are lacking.
John Effin Dumbass doesn't even know he was a sailor not a soldier.
Soldier, US Navy?
I posted this because it really ticks me off that Kerry would donate $250,000 to help Christine Gregoire steal the election in my state, Washington.
That $250,000 could have purchased 50,000 phonecards for our soldiers overseas!
Obviously Kerry has his priorities and providing phonecards for the troops isn't one of them. Afterall, he could easily purchase a phonecard for every soldier serving in Iraq and it would cost him less than $1 million dollars.
No where is this message does John Fing Kerry say that he is going to give a red cent of his sizeable wealth (not to meantion his wife's) to help the troops call home.
It is yet another way for him to stay in the public eye.
Let's hope that he finds an IED over in Iraq - the irony would not be lost on the troops. :)
The secret message is that he hopes they don't boo him so much that the "Old Media" can't keep it a secret from his lefty sheeple here in the States!
On the other hand I do applaud the sentiment. I just think that he long ago went beyond the bounds that would allow me to accept him as any kind of friend to those in harms way! He should do one of two things...
1) Sign Standard Military Form 180.
-or-
2) STFU!
" I will go to Iraq to see the situation first hand and personally visit with our courageous troops who are serving America so well. "
Kerry is more courageous than I thought. Or maybe it's just arrogance.
Sincerely,
John Kerry
(I like the oxymoronic ending, LOL)
Let them send raisins too.. TahRayZaa has loads of 'em to share. ;-)
Especially when you're spending Christmas in Cambodia, delivering Navy Seals and CIA Spooks to their super-secret missions that only I, John Kerry, remember.
Well, he does have that 15 million left over from his campaign burning a hole in his pocket.
So, taking that into consideration, I would say........zip, zero, zilch, nada, nuthin, the big goose-egg.
The Chair is against the wall. The Chair is against the wall.
I noticed that too.
Of course Kerry is going over to Iraq to campaign for the insurgents in the upcoming Iraqi election scheduled for January. He'll probably ask for a recount too. :)
Is the Sunni Triangle a Blue State? :)
Did you borrow your tagline from The Simpsons? Sounds familiar.
;-)
Heh, heh. I wanted it more.
yes, it's the episode where the simpsons join a cult.
For less than a million dollars he could have sent a phone card to every military person over there. While it would have been a generous donation, he could have afforded it and never missed it.
LOL--I knew it!
Okay. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
He's still a dumbass, though.
"He's still a dumbass, though."
Yes he is. I can't believe how close that traitorous (can't print the next word) came to being President.
Senator Kerry! Senator Kerry! Excuse me! But it would cost you and your charming wife ONLY $702,000 (of your many BILLIONS) to give every US service man and woman in Iraq a 100 minute phone card! Could you please, in the name of charity, help fellow serviceman out? It would mean SO MUCH!
That's the sign I've been hoping for. Tomorrow we march on Kentucky!
Beat me to it!
15 Million could buy phone cards, pay for a lot of fuel for his Private Jet that he could shuttle Service Men home for a couple of days of R&R, and in any future elections I'm sure that he would like to "Fly their Ballots, back to the US so that every vote can be counted!"
Yea as a Public Servant he is a Prince (well he really does think he is Prince), he can count his accomplishments on one finger, just ask a Vet which finger it was.
What a loser.
'Go away' comes to mind.
Just what we need, Kerry in Iraq to yet again aid and abbet our enemy.
If you really want to get pissed, tune to CNN or one of the other socialist networks, who have collectively decided to Vietnamize the WOT by putting up names, hometowns, pictures, letters, and interviews with the families of the fallen.
Hint
They are not doing this because they are trying to buck up morale here at home or at the front.
Yeah, and its not just CNN.
All of the leftist media has decided that if it worked to lose us the war in Vietnam, it will work this time around.
NPR, CBS, ABC, NBC have all rather "spontaneously" decided to feature interviews with families of our fallen soldiers, and keep a running body count in a blatant attempt to undermine the war effort at home.
Make no mistake about it, the socialists are just warming up, and their next objective is to force a retreat from Iraq before the job is done.
They must be stopped.
This is more important than the past election, the very survival of the USA is at stake.
This was without a doubt written by one of his hacks (soldier) which goes to show you the caliber of them. Though I have to admit the buying of phone cards does work for me.
"Sailor" just doesn't work for the leftist propaganda machine as well as "soldier".
John is sending a $10 phone card and Tereza is sending a case of Ketchup.
Bill Clinton is sending 6 pair of his used undershorts and Al Gore is sending a $.50 phone card and 100 Gore for President 2000 campaign buttons.
How many times did he mention "Christmas" and how many times did he mention "Quwanza" send the numbers to Jesse and Louis get their response add the number of innocent Iraqi's mutilated by underwear on their heads and the number of "discovered" ballots in Washington State.
Send the data / message to Dan Rather who has the master decoder ring...
We little people must wait.
We Sailors dis-owned him, now waiting for the Soldiers to kick his ass, if anything is left the Marines have a couple of Dogs that eat Dang near anything... (providing you put a little ketchup on it to mask the smell)
If the past means anything, he will donate nothing, nada, zip, zilch. Liberals are very generous when spending your money, but are very tight with their own. Why spend theirs when they can spend yours? What cheapskates!
She's too busy funneling money into the baby slaughterhouses, pagan retreats, lesbian workshops, anti-American screeds, world socialism and mandatory population control programs overseas to worry about some dirty red-necked peons in the filthy bullying imperialist US military that kill those poor "insurgents".
Hey John, do us all a favor. When you go to Iraq next month. Please stay there. Don't come back.
Do you think this has anything to do with the fact that Kerry officially entered the protest to the Ohio election vote count?
There was some weirdo on Hannity and Colmes tonight that is predicting a challenge to the election on January 6th. He said that the American people will be surprised at the strength of the left.
LOL! That's gonna leave a mark!
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