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Murtha wants an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | 8/2/06 | James O'Toole

Posted on 08/02/2006 12:51:47 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32

Mr. Murtha, speaking yesterday at a Post-Gazette editorial board meeting, was asked if he favored a cease-fire in the campaign north of Israel's border.

"I think so," he said. "I think it would be very difficult to justify continuing on."

Referring to the Bush administration's position, he said: "You know, they say, 'Well, we want a long-term cease-fire.' It seems to me you start with a cease-fire, and then you try to work out the details long term. If you don't, and you continue to have heavy-handed military action -- and I support heavy-handed military action because it saves your own troops -- but it creates enemies, and that's the problem we have."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 109th; aidandcomfort; anything2helpenemy; armchairgenerals; ceasefire; douchebagmurtha; murtha; murthastinks; traitor
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I did a title search and didn't see this posted. If it's a duplicate, I apologize..
1 posted on 08/02/2006 12:51:48 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

This guy is dangerous. He reminds me of an in-law relative, whose kids put him in a nursing home because he was looney half the time...after his wife died...


2 posted on 08/02/2006 12:53:45 PM PDT by nikos1121 (Thank you again Jimmy Carter.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
"Murtha wants an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon"

For an old washed-out, bitter has-been, he sure wants a lot.
3 posted on 08/02/2006 12:53:49 PM PDT by jdm
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Murtha can kiss my butt.


4 posted on 08/02/2006 12:53:54 PM PDT by rightinthemiddle (Without the Media, the Left and Islamofacists are Nothing.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

And, I think it would be very difficult to justify Murtha continuing on.


5 posted on 08/02/2006 12:54:00 PM PDT by SeaBiscuit (God Bless America and All who protect and preserve this Great Nation.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

In the immortal words of Mark Levin:

Murtha is a shmuck.


6 posted on 08/02/2006 12:54:24 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Amnesia is a train of thought.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Murthas MOUTH needs a cease fire! Hey Murtha! Shut your stinkin' pie hole!


7 posted on 08/02/2006 12:54:42 PM PDT by Ron in Acreage (VOTE DEMOCRAT--TERRORISTS ARE COUNTING ON IT)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Murtha is a confessed child-molestor. Little boys.

/Good. Goose. Gander.


8 posted on 08/02/2006 12:54:56 PM PDT by Fenris6 (3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Killing Islamic terrorists is simply something that Murtha finds unacceptable.


9 posted on 08/02/2006 12:55:09 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Just A Nobody

Murtha ping.


10 posted on 08/02/2006 12:55:33 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Let me be first this time:

I'm shocked, shocked.

Thank You


11 posted on 08/02/2006 12:55:34 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Murtha needs to go to Lebanon and become a human shield


12 posted on 08/02/2006 12:55:54 PM PDT by GeronL (http://www.mises.org/story/1975 <--no such thing as a fairtax)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

13 posted on 08/02/2006 12:56:05 PM PDT by The Iceman Cometh (Just another evil conservative)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

I also want Jennifer Love Hewitt naked in my bed RIGHT NOW, but it ain't going happen.


14 posted on 08/02/2006 12:56:59 PM PDT by GianniV
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
"Time for your meds, John."


15 posted on 08/02/2006 12:57:09 PM PDT by jdm
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Sounds like Kerry, he's for heavy handed military action but against it. Methinks the man has gone around the bend. Time to retire.


16 posted on 08/02/2006 12:57:14 PM PDT by SueRae
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
If you don't, and you continue to have heavy-handed military action -- and I support heavy-handed military action because it saves your own troops -- but it creates enemies, and that's the problem we have."

In other words, if you are in a war the worst thing you can do is keep fighting, because you might make an enemy. Exactly the reason France justified not fighting in 1939-40 after declaring war on Germany two days after Poland was invaded -- the Sitzkrieg.

We carried WWII to a finish and eliminated the regimes of Germany and Japan (although the latter kept the Emporor, the Government was abolished). Are Germany and Japan enemies of ours?

Murtha is a fool.

17 posted on 08/02/2006 12:57:23 PM PDT by You Dirty Rats (I Love Free Republic!!!)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

A stopped clock is right more often than Jack Murtha.


18 posted on 08/02/2006 12:59:50 PM PDT by gridlock (The 'Pubbies will pick up two (2) seats in the Senate and four (4) seats in the House in 2006)
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To: nikos1121

This guy is dangerous. He reminds me of an in-law relative, whose kids put him in a nursing home because he was looney half the time...after his wife died...
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He is worse than dangerous. He is a sick leftist who hates America and everything it stands for, like many of his rotten commie ilk. He continues to campaign on an "everything against America" platform, especially anything military, U.S. or otherwise.

He is also mentally distrubed -- anyone who would say what he has said, in public, is one sick puppy and needs psychological attention. Maybe he and Dean could get a package deal from a local mental hospital...


19 posted on 08/02/2006 1:00:31 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: GianniV

How about Hugh Hewitt instead?


20 posted on 08/02/2006 1:00:41 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
I read Murtha's quote 4 times and I still don't know what in the flying f@#k he's talking about. This guy is just an empty suit.
21 posted on 08/02/2006 1:01:00 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (12th district Freeper.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Has Murtha said the IDF should withdraw to Okinawa yet??


22 posted on 08/02/2006 1:01:51 PM PDT by MikeA (Not voting out of anger in November is a vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House)
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To: dynachrome; smoothsailing; Coop; freema; jazusamo; W04Man; xpertskir; bert; chcknhawk; Old Sarge; ..
He just keeps talking and talking and talking and talking ping!


If you wish to be added to the IREY/Murtha ping list, let me know!

23 posted on 08/02/2006 1:02:10 PM PDT by Just A Nobody (NEVER AGAIN..Support our Troops! www.irey.com and www.vets4Irey.com - Now more than Ever!)
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To: EagleUSA

Is his opponent going to debate him?


24 posted on 08/02/2006 1:02:24 PM PDT by nikos1121 (Thank you again Jimmy Carter.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32


If Murtha is any example of our "representative" government, we've had it, folks. And if he isn't, why doesn't Congress discipline this delusional jerk?


25 posted on 08/02/2006 1:02:25 PM PDT by Paperdoll (.........on the cutting edge)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
Murtha wants an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon

Uhhh.

Has anyone thought to tell the Muthah that he has no authority over either Israel, Hezbollah or Lebanon?

And that what he "wants" isn't worth crap?

26 posted on 08/02/2006 1:02:26 PM PDT by Publius6961 (overwhelming force behaving underwhelmingly is a waste.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Note to Murtha: You're an elected representative (not for long...) for the United States, not Israel. They didn't ask for your permission, and won't if they're smart. MYOB.


27 posted on 08/02/2006 1:02:46 PM PDT by Bosco (Remember how you felt on September 11?)
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To: Fenris6
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28 posted on 08/02/2006 1:04:11 PM PDT by Just A Nobody (NEVER AGAIN..Support our Troops! www.irey.com and www.vets4Irey.com - Now more than Ever!)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

If Murtha wants an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon, the place for him to go is Baalbek, Lebanon. Those are the people who need to hear his call to lay down their weapons. But the REM doesn't have the cajones to go there.


29 posted on 08/02/2006 1:05:09 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

He has not been named cut-and-run Murtha for nothing. Seems he never met a terrorist he didn't like.


30 posted on 08/02/2006 1:05:48 PM PDT by jazusamo (DIANA IREY for Congress, PA 12th District: Retire murtha.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
"and I support heavy-handed military action because it saves your own troops -- but it creates enemies, and that's the problem we have."

Enemies are created no matter what we do. So the best course is to kill them. That's the only way you diminish their numbers.

During the 90s when Clinton was doing NOTHING to stop Al Qaeda and supporting every Islamic cause celebre out there from helping them in the Balkans to trying to get Israel to surrender most of its territory to the Palestinians to Yasir Arafat nearly making a permanent resident at the White House, despite all this the 90s was Al Qaeda's recruiting heyday when they became more ferocious, powerful and numerous.

Cowering in front of these people does nothing to dissuade them. Only the CREDIBLE application of force will stop them in their tracks and give them pause. An iron fist is what they respect, not when we cower before them. Again, remember the 90s when Bin Laden was calling the US a "paper tiger" that would be "easier to defeat than the USSR."

Nope, sorry Traitor John. You can't have it both ways and claim to be for aggressive force but also for being nice to the jihadist animals.

31 posted on 08/02/2006 1:06:48 PM PDT by MikeA (Not voting out of anger in November is a vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House)
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To: MikeA
Has Murtha said the IDF should withdraw to Okinawa yet??

You beat me to it.

32 posted on 08/02/2006 1:07:32 PM PDT by mbynack (Retired USAF SMSgt)
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To: nikos1121

His opponent, the lovely Mrs. Diana Irey, would love nothing more than to debate him. It ain't gonna happen...he will never agree to it!


33 posted on 08/02/2006 1:07:40 PM PDT by Just A Nobody (NEVER AGAIN..Support our Troops! www.irey.com and www.vets4Irey.com - Now more than Ever!)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Murtha's right. Look how well a cease fire has worked in Korea.


34 posted on 08/02/2006 1:07:57 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Rabid ethnicist.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
Who is surprised by this.

Murtha calling for cease fire = more Sunday morning talk show appearences.

He is a Media Whore
35 posted on 08/02/2006 1:09:35 PM PDT by TheRedSoxWinThePennant
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
Of course Murtha's "Cease Fire" would apply only to Israel and not to Hezbollah/Hamas/PLO/Iran/Syria. This has been the left's tactic for years. The left gets Israel to declare a cease fire and the terrorists just keep on killing Israeli civilians. No wonder; ample evidence from independent and even leftists websites/organizations show that most of the Left supports terrorist organizations, dictators and revels in the death of Jewish civilians and soldiers (both US and Israeli).

But wait Murtha, you gutless swine, it gets better still!! There was a "cease fire" in 2000 when Israel pulled out of the "Occupied Territories" in a "land for peace" deal that you leftists loooved. A more accurate spelling would be "land for pieces" deal as the terrorists got land and hundreds of Israelis and tourists got blown to pieces. So there was a "cease fire" Murtha, you moronic piece of amphibian filth. Israel was REPEATEDLY attacked by terrorists and is now defending itself. The multiple cease fires failed because the terrorists do not want peace, they want to kill EVERY Jewish person in existence and then enslave or kill every other non-Islamic.

And you, Mr. "Gutless Wonder" Murtha, Dennis "let's destroy our arms and sing Kumbaya as the terrorists exterminate us" Kucinnich, the ENTIRE Democratic party, and all of your leftist "anti-war" allies are doing you utmost to help the terrorists win!!!!!!!!!

36 posted on 08/02/2006 1:10:26 PM PDT by M1Tanker (Proven Daily: Modern "progressive" liberalism is just National Socialism without the "twisted cross")
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

Does REM=REMF?

I was an REMF, but charlie did not seem to understand that. He shot at my a$$ anyway. Damn near hit me a number of times. Oddly enough, I never got shot at while driving in a convoy or on patrol, only when in base camp. I'll never figure that one out.

Murtha would make a heck of a human shield. Can probably cover a 175 howitzer, just with his butt.


37 posted on 08/02/2006 1:10:46 PM PDT by Stashiu (RVN, 1969-70)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
Does he even own a pair of testicles?
38 posted on 08/02/2006 1:10:49 PM PDT by msnimje (Uni-FAIL - UN peace keeping force in Lebanon has lived up to its name.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Murtha wants attention.


39 posted on 08/02/2006 1:11:15 PM PDT by TChris (Banning DDT wasn't about birds. It was about power.)
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To: Just A Nobody

Then she should show up against an empty podium and debate him in abstentia. Kind of like taking a deposition without opposing counsel being there.


40 posted on 08/02/2006 1:11:42 PM PDT by nikos1121 (Thank you again Jimmy Carter.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
Why does everyone think that Israel would even listen to America if we ordered them to a cease fire ? Now Mullah Murtha wants to speak for other countries.
41 posted on 08/02/2006 1:13:07 PM PDT by John Lenin
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To: Just A Nobody

BTTT


42 posted on 08/02/2006 1:13:18 PM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: nikos1121; smoothsailing; xpertskir
Then she should show up against an empty podium and debate him in abstentia.

Great idea.....it would have the same effect with or without his appearance!

43 posted on 08/02/2006 1:14:01 PM PDT by Just A Nobody (NEVER AGAIN..Support our Troops! www.irey.com and www.vets4Irey.com - Now more than Ever!)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Cut N' Run Murtha needs to observe a personal cease fire in which he ceases firing off his fat f'in MOUTH, start with 48 hours, and then maybe expand that to the rest of his bloody LIFE!

I've heard enough from that former serviceperson (who happened to wear a Marine uniform) to last the rest of MY life!


44 posted on 08/02/2006 1:17:52 PM PDT by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
The man is a dangerous moron.

Why doesn't he volunteer to go to Lebanon and be a human shield for the hezzies.

45 posted on 08/02/2006 1:23:18 PM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
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To: All

It becomes crystal clear who supports the war on terror and those who are "peace at any cost" Democrats.

I fear for this country after the next election. If the Dems take the WH and House the WOT will wither on the vine.


46 posted on 08/02/2006 1:26:25 PM PDT by rbmillerjr
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

"Murtha wants an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon"

I want a new Ferrari Enzo and an all expense's paid dinner date with Pamela Anderson.

Somehow, I don't think I'm going to get it. Perhaps I should accept that fact and "move on" with my life.

Perhaps Muddled Murtha should just move on. Out of the Senate. Somewhere, anywhere.


47 posted on 08/02/2006 1:26:41 PM PDT by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now courtesy of Islam.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

48 posted on 08/02/2006 1:37:07 PM PDT by oldleft
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To: Just A Nobody; nikos1121
His opponent, the lovely Mrs. Diana Irey, would love nothing more than to debate him. It ain't gonna happen...he will never agree to it!

I think this race is going to reach a point where he'll have to debate her. Murtha can only hide for so long. We've already seen him go from completely ignoring her to now putting out a hit piece on Diana Irey on his website.

49 posted on 08/02/2006 1:39:09 PM PDT by Coop (No, there are no @!%$&#*! polls on Irey vs. Murtha!)
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To: rbmillerjr
If the Dems take the WH and House the WOT will wither on the vine.

So do everything you can to ensure this doesn't occur!

50 posted on 08/02/2006 1:40:26 PM PDT by Coop (No, there are no @!%$&#*! polls on Irey vs. Murtha!)
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