Pics :-)

[fedupinBushcountry]

In this photo taken Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009, U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, center, shakes hand with a U.S. soldier during his visit to Garmser district of Helmand province, in southern Afghanistan.


In this photo taken Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009, U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, right, speaks to elders of Garmser district in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan.


In this photo taken Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009, U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, left, shakes hand with an Afghan youth at a bazaar during his visiting to Garmser district of Helmand province, in southern Afghanistan


U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, signals to a helicopter crewman that he can hear him on his headset intercom, shortly before departing Kandahar Airbase, during a visit to southern Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009.

[beachmom]

1. :). Thank you, Fed UP!!

Hmmm ... the Afghan elders look like a tough crowd.

[karynnj]

2. Thanks,

I agree with Beachmom on the elders looking like a tough crowd - not exactly a Faneuil Hall crowd. I doubt there were even the one of the Afghan equivalent of a standing ovation.

[ObamaKerryDem]

3. Nice pics!

Especially the last one. He looks very much in command..and every bit the statesman! :D

That DOES look like a tough crowd, lol, though from the second to last pic, it would appear that he was well received by the citizens he met on the street at least. :)

Thanks for posting these!

[Inuca]

4. Nice, interesting pictures, but

they make me want even more to hear that he is back in the US. Did you guys know that he went back to Afghanistan? Just read it somewhere on the MSNBC site...

[karynnj]

6. I really hope that he and the others can convince Kharzai to

do what is needed to let them get a legitimate government.

[beachmom]

7. Really? I googled but can't confirm that he went back to Afghanistan.

All the recent articles (within the last hour or so) say he is in Pakistan.

[Inuca]

9. Here

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33376183/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/page/2/

[BlueIris]

5. Thanks. It's nice to have pics. nt

[wisteria]

8. Yes, that does look like a tough crowd in the 2nd picture. Thanks for these.

I had come across some other ones, but had not seen these.

I understand he has gone back to Afghanistan.

[blm]

10. meeeoooow......brilliant and brave

makes me.......proud.

[beachmom]

11. You got that right!!! How about more pics:

Kerry, the diplomat:



What great teamwork today!



Let's not forget the ladies!




And, finally, the babies do always love him, don't they?

[Inuca]

12. Meeeooow?!?

:rofl:

[blm]

13. well.....pics of Kerry are still catnip to some of us.... ;)

and, in my case, so are pics of Teresa. ;)))

[fedupinBushcountry]

14. BLM

you crack me up. :rofl: