Fantastic research!
High praise, coming from you.
For the last few hours I've been trying to find Murth's speech on the House floor where he called for the troops to be removed.
I've found it, itself, but all the links back to Thomas seem to have been disappeared.
Here's the title, and how he begins:
REMOVAL OF UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES FROM SOMALIA (House of Representatives - November 09, 1993)
Mr. MURTHA. Mr. Speaker, let me just make a couple of points.
I expressed my opposition to our deployment to Somalia when it began. When I went to the White House, I expressed my concern to President Bush....
And here is the Thomas link that no longer works:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?r103:7:./temp/~r103cpDgH0:e123712:
It's not a big deal, but it would be great to have a direct citation for this speech, if you or anybody else can find the original posting or archive.
But I do love it that Murtha cited BOTH instances that Al Qaeda were inspired by.
What a clown!
The 9/11 Commission Report is full of fun stuff like that. The two staff monographs, available from the Commission's website, are a wonderful read also. And don't skip the endnotes or you miss a lot.