Posted on 08/30/2006 9:21:00 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
The congressman who is demanding an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq has criticized fellow high-profile Democrat, Senator Hillary Clinton, for failing to back his stand.
Interviewed by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., said he was unhappy with Clinton's failure to support his resolution calling for withdrawal.
Asked by Goodman if he was disappointed with Clinton's position, Murtha replied: "Yeah, I’m disappointed. I’m not sure why that’s happened. She talked to me after I made my statement, and I see she's finally calling for Secretary Rumsfeld's resignation. And I think - I don't know what the reason she’s decided not to endorse my position, but we're spending $8 billion a month, $11 million an hour, and there’s so many things we could do. We cannot solve these other domestic problems without redeploying. And with 130,000 troops there for three-and-a-half years, the incidents are getting worse.
When Goodman asked what message he would have for Clinton, Murtha said: "Well, I think she has to look at this very carefully and decide. I think she ought to be out more in front. She's a leader in this country. She's a leading Democratic nominee, and I think she has to look at what I’ve been saying."
Murtha added: "I believe we should redeploy responsibly as quickly as possible. I feel very strongly we can't desert Iraq, but we have to find a way to reduce our presence. We’ve actually become the enemy in some cases. When you look at what's happened with our troops occupying the country when they said we’d be liberators, some of the military things that we have to do as military and some of the enemies we’ve made, we really lost ground."
Murtha said the Bush administration's plans to "stay the course" in Iraq do little to decrease violence in that region.
"The incidents are increasing, rather than decreasing," Murtha said. "We’ve got 130,000 troops, and we're spending $8 billion a month, and we need to reduce our presence and let the Iraqis take over."
That dumb pig is liable to get his corpse found in Ft. Marcy Park.
This is all part of the plan to make Hillary look moderate. Murtha is just reading his lines in the faxed Hillary! script..
Looks like the Murtha family better make sure the burial plot is paid for.
Some species eat their own kind. Duckheadrats are that species.
This is all part of the plan to make Hillary look moderate. Murtha is just reading his lines in the faxed Hillary! script..
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I agree -- anyone who does not think those FBI files are still not worth more than Fort Knox, think again. The Klintoons are still running things in many ways -- bank on it. That treasonous moron Murtha is just a Hitlery shill --- he wants a high seat in the Congress and he is playing every far-left, anti-American card he can find....bank on that too.
Demorats eating their own,beautiful
Verrrrry interesting. Head approaching nail.
Oh, great idea - let's forget about terrorism and instead invest in universal daycare centers. These "either guns or butter" types don't think we can do both. What an idiot.
....like arranging more kickbacks to Murtha's relatives, for example. < /sarc>
I don't think Murtha has enough smarts to play that game.
But let him keep preaching the cut and run game. most SANE people can see what's wong with that plan. As long as he boxes himself and the others in his group, Kerry, The drunk driving murderer, dipsy doc Howard, Pelosi boxer, etc. into the loony left corner, it serves us well.
that cracked me up
Think she'll listen to him??
Well, he's history. Dem Rule #1 - Don't dis hills.
I still believe that Hillary will not run for president. She is establishing a war chest to fund the one she and bill want in office with the stipulation that they get specific appointments if the one gets elected.
Any day Hitlery gets assailed is a very good day. Have a very nice day everyone.
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