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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Richnorth who wrote (23513)	5/18/2004 7:59:45 AM
From: tonto	Respond to of 81568

Kerry to Endorse New 'Purple Heart' Band-Aids 05/06/04 NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey Senator John Kerry, the recipient of three Purple Hearts, has signed a contract with Johnson & Johnson to endorse a new line of band-aids. The band-aids will be small purple hearts designed to cover minor, superficial wounds like Kerry suffered as a lieutenant in the Vietnam War. "We're proud to be working with Senator Kerry," said a Johnson & Johnson spokesperson. "We plan to use actual shrapnel removed from his arm in our ad campaign to highlight the small size of our J&J Band-Aid brand Purple Heart bandages." The doctor who treated Kerry at Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam, recently described the procedure used to treat the wound that won the senator his first Purple Heart. "First, I located the wound with the aid of a magnifying glass," said Dr. Louis Letson. "Then, I used a pair of tweezers to extract the shrapnel, which measured approximately one centimeter in length and two to three millimeters in diameter. "Finally, I covered the wound with one of those little round band-aids people use to cover corns on their toes." The Band-Aid endorsement is not the first for Senator Kerry. It comes on the heels of two other high-profile endorsement deals Kerry has signed with Waffle House and Flip-Flops, Inc.

To: Richnorth who wrote (23513)	5/18/2004 8:02:04 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

The Berg killing remains very mysterious. I saw part of it on TV last night and the killers' hands all looked white. They all looked like big guys, not your typical malnourished Arab types. And did they ever actually show his head get cut off? I haven't watched the whole thing but I hear it was a jump cut. Fake heads are easy to make. And there was no blood spurting or dripping. Third, yes how did they ID the body so quickly? With head? Without head? There is no investigation into this, we're just supposed to buy whatever they tell us. Fourth, was Berg in US custody or not? And why was he wearing a US orange jumpsuit? And what was he doing with the 19th hijacker at that flight school and emailing? All innocent coincidences I'm sure. Zarqawi has become the new boogey-man "proving Saddam and Al Qaida were in league" yet has anyone even proven the guy is alive? How are they sure that masked man is him? What about his supposedly amputated leg? How did his leg grow back so fast? Or was the amputation report just more bad intelligence? And if that's bad intel, what isn't?