Kerry Going to Iraq (and Hopes Nobody Remembers Him)

John F'ing Kerry is traveling to Iraq to meet all those soldiers who didn't work hard in school and make themselves smart:

Senator John F. Kerry plans to leave Wednesday for a nine-day trip through Iraq and five other Middle Eastern nations, as he seeks to hone a regional approach to ending the Iraq war while entering the final stage of his deliberations about another run for president.

Kerry said he hopes to use the regional trip, his first there in nearly year, to meet with political leaders and US troops in Iraq about solutions to the Iraq conflict. His meetings will include a session with President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, a country that the Iraq Study Group recommended should be included in direct talks about the future of Iraq. ...

The trip will be Kerry's fourth visit to Iraq since the war started, and his first since his election-eve "botched joke" where he suggested that poor students would "get stuck in Iraq."

Kerry said he wanted to meet with the National Guard soldiers who mocked his blunder by holding a banner: "Halp us Jon Carry _ we R stuck hear N Irak." When he saw the banner in a widely circulated photograph, Kerry said, he laughed, adding that he'd have done "the same thing" if he were in their shoes. But he said he won't make that part of this trip because he is interested in "business, not politics."

I'm not buying the part about Kerry laughing when he saw that picture.