Mark Kirk: "I simply misremembered it wrong"

Mark Kirk is the GOP Senate candidate in Illinois. Mark Jerk's House career has been defined primarily by his "druggie druggie druggie!" cries, but now he's fallen plumb on that mound of flesh that's so laughably referred to as his face.

Kirk has referred to himself on his official website as "the only member of Congress to serve in Operation Iraqi Freedom." But that's not true. Kirk never served in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

That means he lied.

Kirk also claimed that the Navy gave him an Intelligence Officer of the Year award for 1999. One problem with that though: The Navy has no award called Intelligence Officer of the Year.

When called on this, Kirk then claimed that this was all a misunderstanding, you see. The award he got was actually called the Rufus Taylor Intelligence Unit of the Year, he says. But there's no award with that name either.

Mark Kirk's habit of lying about his military record is an insult to so many of America's fighting men and women.

Finally, Kirk said about the whole deal, "I simply misremembered it wrong." Yes, he said that.

Gee, Mark Kirk, if you really were in Operation Iraqi Freedom, wouldn't you remember these things correctly? If I was in something like that, I'm sure I'd never forget it.