Awww Thanks John

For some reason the Friends of John Kerry keep sending me crappy emails despite the fact I continually click on the "never send me anymore of this junk" link in each email.

Here's the latest installment:

Dear Tom,

You can feel the ice breaking. For far too long, Republican leaders have refused
to challenge the aimless Bush "stay as long as it takes" approach to Iraq. But
now, their unwillingness to act has started to crumble.

Today in the Senate, facing a Democratic resolution on Iraq, the Republicans
offered their own call for President Bush to come up with a plan. They didn't go
nearly far enough, but clearly our call for a concrete plan is gaining momentum.

It's time for the next step. Help our "20,000 troops home over the holidays"
campaign place billboards in the home districts of Republican leaders.

Help place billboards in Republican leaders' home districts:
https://contribute.johnkerry.com/form.html?sc=7037

To date, over a quarter of a million people have signed our call to withdraw
20,000 troops from Iraq over the holidays. That withdrawal should be linked to
the completion of December elections in Iraq - and it should be the first step
in the concrete plan for Iraq that President George W. Bush owes the American
people.

We shouldn't let America's brave men and women go another day without having
such a plan in place. That's why we're turning up the heat with our Billboards
and House Signs campaign over the next month.

Will you add your voice and your financial support to this effort right now?

Help place billboards in Republican leaders' home districts:
https://contribute.johnkerry.com/form.html?sc=7037

This is the next key step in a grassroots organizing and mobilizing campaign
that won't end until we've forced the Bush administration to act. The best way
to do that is to turn up the heat on Republican leaders in Congress.

It's important to get our "20,000 troops home over the holidays" message out
everywhere. With your help, we'll run these billboards where they can be seen by
key Republican leaders of Congress.

And, to extend this phase of our "20,000 troops home over the holidays" effort
to your own hometown, here's what we've done. We've created a downloadable
version of the billboard that you can print and post in your own home.

Download and display a house sign:
http://www.johnkerry.com/action/20000/window-sign.pdf

We can feel the momentum building every day behind our call for a concrete plan
for Iraq. And our Billboards and House Signs initiative can keep moving things
forward. Let's make it happen.

Sincerely,

John Kerry

P.S. We've got to act fast to place and produce these billboards. In addition to
donating, I hope you'll pass news of this exciting initiative on to your friends
and colleagues by forwarding this message now

This man had better not win the Democratic primary in '08. This ridiculous "bring 20,000 troops back by Christmas" ploy makes me mad, either support bringing all the men and women of our armed forces home, or shut up and try to win the war. Half ass measures don't work.

If memory serves me right, didn't Kerry say that one of the problems with managing the war was lack of troops in Iraq?