Manatee Hunting

When last we saw Senator Edward M. Kennedy (Now you know what the "M" stands for...), he had just been slapped back by his Pennsylvania "colleague" Rick Santorum in retaliation for his attacks against Santorum over his book, It Takes A Family, under cover of criticizing a three-year-old Catholic publication article.

At that time I reported that Kennedy was "off to Gitmo to do what he was born to do: probe women's underwear." But, though I haven't seen any on-the-record quotes, reports indicate the soldiers at Camp X-Ray weren't too happy to see him:

During his inspection tour of Guantanamo Bay this week, Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy got an earful from U.S. troops running the facility, who blasted Kennedy for his anti-war statements and similar comments by other Democrats.

Soldiers from Kennedy's home state gave him "a piece of their mind," Pentagon officials told the Washington Times Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough.

One official said that Kennedy "got a stiff reaction from those home-state soldiers. ... The troops down there expressed their disdain for that kind of commentary, especially comparisons to the gulag."

Hawaii Democrat Daniel Akaka, who visited Gitmo along with Kennedy, reportedly got a similar reaction.

Couldn't have been as bad as the hell EMK truly deserves.

Pardon My English took note as well.

Would have been a hoot if one of the servicemen had offered to buy Teddy a round of drinks, provided he pushed through another emergency military spending bill to pay for it....