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600 Listen to Critic of Iraq War [Murtha -FR Link]
Washington Post ^
| January 6, 2006
| Annie Gowen
Posted on 01/06/2006 12:01:20 AM PST by ncountylee
At Moran's Arlington Forum, Pa. Democrat Again Urges Pullout
In an emotional two-hour public forum in Arlington last night on the Iraq war, one of the Bush administration's chief critics, Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), renewed his call for an immediate pullout, saying, "We've become the enemy."
Murtha, a blunt-spoken decorated war veteran, has become a hero to the antiwar movement after he was denounced as a coward for his call to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq.
Murtha's views had drawn sharp criticism earlier in the day from Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Pace said in a briefing that Murtha had sent the "wrong message" and that the lawmaker's comments Monday that he would not enlist as a soldier today would damage recruiting.
Before a crowd of about 600 people that spilled out of the auditorium and into an overflow room and the street, Murtha accused the Pentagon of ignoring a drop in recruitment levels and tolerating such problems in Iraq as low morale and shortages of body armor and other equipment.
"Instead of taking on the real problems, they face it with rhetoric," he said. " 'Murtha's hurting recruiting,' " the congressman said. "They say, 'You're hurting the effort and hurting the troops.' That's what so frustrating to me."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 109th; arlingtonva; bushhaters; cutandrun; cutandrunrats; jimmoran; murtha; whiteflagrats
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To: ncountylee
"Instead of taking on the real problems, they face it with rhetoric," he said.So Murtha's taking on the anti-war Democrats...?
Good Lord, this man is becoming positively crazed with publicity lust.
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posted on
01/06/2006 12:03:18 AM PST
by
Darkwolf377
(The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you. --Elmer Davis)
To: Darkwolf377
But with the invitation to Murtha, the meeting gained national attention on the Internet. The Web site http://www.freerepublic.com urged supporters of staying the course in Iraq to go out and protest, and groups such as MoveOn.org sent e-mails to opponents of the war urging them to attend.
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posted on
01/06/2006 12:04:14 AM PST
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: ncountylee
Murtha accused the Pentagon of ignoring a drop in recruitment levels and tolerating such problems in Iraq as low morale and shortages of body armor and other equipment. Yah know... it takes big brass ones for the likes of him to say that with a straight face.
Murtha has been drinking the beltway dem kookaid for so long he doesn't even know that he's a lousy hypocrit.
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posted on
01/06/2006 12:05:47 AM PST
by
Ramius
(Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1000 knives and counting!)
To: ncountylee
"one of the Bush administration's chief critics, Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), renewed his call for an immediate pullout, saying, "We've become the enemy." Truer words were never spoken, Mr. Murtha, you have become the enemy.
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posted on
01/06/2006 12:14:42 AM PST
by
TheCrusader
("The frenzy of the mohammedans has devastated the Churches of God" Pope Urban II ~ 1097A.D.)
To: ncountylee
John Murtha and the entire Democrat Party are traitors and guilty of treason against the United States of America. They should be treated acccordingly by the American people.
To: ncountylee
Watched parts on c-span. It was truly pathetic. How could this truly be called a ''town hall meeting'' when you fill it up with antiwar protesters. Why have it at all? ........Maybe they all needed a group hug!
To: Bush gal in LA
Watched parts on c-span. It was truly pathetic. How could this truly be called a ''town hall meeting'' when you fill it up with antiwar protesters.
Oh, but what an opportunity to study moonbats in there natural habitat.
;-)
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posted on
01/06/2006 12:37:43 AM PST
by
kb2614
(Hell hath no fury than a bureaucrat scorned.)
To: ncountylee
Meanwhile, the grown ups at the Pentagon, the White House and Central Command are WORKING the problem.
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posted on
01/06/2006 12:47:50 AM PST
by
msnimje
(This space is currently undergoing maintenance.)
To: ncountylee
"We've become the enemy." really?? I thought the military was broken, now they're fighting on the wrong side?? So the right side would be...?? Oh... terrorists..,. right
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posted on
01/06/2006 1:19:42 AM PST
by
GeronL
(http://flogerloon.blogspot.com)
To: Darkwolf377
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posted on
01/06/2006 1:21:31 AM PST
by
Just A Nobody
(I - LOVE - my attitude problem! WBB lives on. Beware the Enemedia.)
To: Bush gal in LA
John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), renewed his call for an immediate pullout, saying, "We've become the enemy." John P. Murtha has become the Cindy Sheehan of The United States Marine Corps.
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posted on
01/06/2006 3:03:42 AM PST
by
TYVets
(God so loved the world he didn't send a committee)
To: Darkwolf377
"We've become the enemy." Well, give him credit. He did state the Democrat position succinctly.
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posted on
01/06/2006 3:06:33 AM PST
by
airborne
(If being a Christian was a crime, would there be enough evidence to convict you?)
To: GeronL
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posted on
01/06/2006 3:12:07 AM PST
by
devolve
(<-- (-in a manner reminiscent of Senator Gasbag F. Kohnman-)
To: TYVets
I know it's unbeleivable what is happening to the Dim PARTY. Little by little, day by day, they are ALL turning into Howard Dean clones. Maybe when he took over as chairman he had a pod factory or something as in{''Invasion of the body snatchers'') and every day he is taking over their bodies and turning them into these far lefty looney radical pod anti-war activists.Its scary!
To: ncountylee
Experience proves that the man who obstructs a war in which his nation is engaged, no matter whether right or wrong, occupies no enviable place in life or history. Better for him, individually, to advocate "war, pestilence, and famine," than to act as obstructionist to a war already begun. -- Ulysses S. Grant, 1885
Mr. Murtha will occupy no enviable place in life or history.
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01/06/2006 3:22:18 AM PST
by
advance_copy
(Stand for life, or nothing at all)
To: Bush gal in LA
Little by little, day by day, they are ALL turning into Howard Dean clones.......... .........and every day he is taking over their bodies and turning them into these far lefty looney radical pod anti-war activists.Its scary!! Scares the he** out of the voters as well !
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posted on
01/06/2006 3:46:55 AM PST
by
TYVets
(God so loved the world he didn't send a committee)
To: ncountylee
Mrs.murtha is becoming one of those small group of rats that are in the "gift that keeps on giving" category.
Although she is a painful embarrassment as a one time Marine, congressman surrender is beginning to pay dividends.
When have you ever heard the Joint Chiefs respond to an individual before? She's breaking into the upper level.
She will send people away from the minority party as time proves her words to be pure politics over country.
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posted on
01/06/2006 4:47:30 AM PST
by
jmaroneps37
(We will never murtha to the terrorists. Bring home the troops means bring home the war.)
To: jmaroneps37
The Vietnamization of Iraq is being done by the Dems. The results will be the same if they are successful.
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posted on
01/06/2006 5:02:00 AM PST
by
Stashiu
(RVN, 1969-70)
To: Darkwolf377
590 were bused in I'm sure BUMP!
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