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Schaudenfraude (Or John Kerry Visits Iraq)

"Finally, the next morning, Senator Kerry ate chow at the Dining Facility. Normally when a Senator/Representative visits, he is joined by a contingent of soldiers/Marines/airmen from his home state. Despite the fact that the MP unit responsible for Green Zone security is an Army Reserve unit from Massachusetts, not a single soldier went to sit with him. (By contrast, Bill O'Reilly, host of that terrible shoutfest on Fox, had over 400 soldiers waiting in line to meet him on Saturday)."

I'm sure Kerry thought he would just jet to Iraq and get some great photo-ops with smiling soldiers so he could turn around and say, "See? I support the troops, and they support me!"

His helicopter pilot while he was in Iraq is even rumored to have asked him to sign a copy of the photo below:

Ouch. That's gotta sting.

ADDENDUM:
James Taranto offers a summation of the Democratic leadership's attitude toward the military, and why the soldiers snubbed John Kerry during his visit: "But generally, there is the notion that the military is nothing but underclass idiots. Sure, they can deploy thousands of miles away and coordinate military assaults that are so precise and so technically driven that relatively small concentrations of our troops can defeat an entire nation's organized army in days. But still, they are manipulated idiots, according to the popular theory. This is wrong. Even if you disagree with the president's decision to attack Iraq, or more wisely the implementation of our plan after military victory over the Iraqi army, this does not mean the troops doing the work are idiots. Most of them are not; many of them are quite smart; almost all of them are decent folk who understand that the concepts of freedom and justice must be secured on the ground if they are to be real."

UPDATE
Michelle Malkin irrefutably bitch-slaps TPM Muckraker, as only Ms. Malkin can -- with in-depth research, independent verification of sources, and genuine photo evidence. Go see for yourself.