Posted on 01/15/2011 10:49:30 AM PST by OldDeckHand
Former sailors, soldiers and Marines are expressing outrage at Navy Secretary Ray Mabus’s decision to name a naval warship after recently deceased Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman John Murtha.
The opposition is largely a function of Murtha’s actions and comments during his final years. Murtha became known as one of the most vocal opponents of the war in Iraq — despite voting in 2002 for the resolution that authorized the use of force against Saddam Hussein. In 2005 he declared the war unwinnable, and pushed a resolution to get the troops out of the country.
“The U.S. cannot accomplish anything further in Iraq militarily,” he said. “It is time to bring them home.”
Murtha angered many again in 2006 when he accused eight Marines of deliberately killing Iraqi civilians in Haditha “in cold blood.” As of today, charges against six of the Marines accused have been dropped, one acquitted, and a court martial for the sole remaining defendant has been postponed.
A scathing Washington Times editorial pointed to Murtha’s demonization of the Haditha Marines as one of the primary reasons for the warship outrage.
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Also, every prior San Antonio-class LPD (I think there are 4 or 5 already in service and another 4 or 5 in construction) and prior-LPD class ships have been named after CITIES - you know, like San Antonio-class. Murtha is the first person to get a LPD named after him, breaking with Navy tradition.
USS Corrupt Gas Bag
How long before the USS Bill Ayers or the USS Jesse Jackson?
It should be the first US ship scuttled even before the keel strikes the water. Directly after its bow is struck with a christening blow with a French Magnum chocked full of horse shit.
This is a direct violation of federal law, he has not been dead long enough. I guess I will go look it up.
Why not the USS Benedict Arnold?
Is the USS Aldrich Ames next? How about the USS Jane Fonda?
OMG! Can you imagine being assigned to serve on this ship? Wonder what would happen if sailors refused to do that?
USS Benedict Arnold???
I like the way you think . . .
Nick named “The Drunken old Sod”
That back stabbing POS Murtha doens’t rate having a latrine named after him.
I have contacted my Congressman and told him so.
I strongly suggest that everybody that loves our Marines do the same.
This injustice cannot be allowed to happen or to stand.
If we absolutely have to honor the dorrupt and dishonorable old fart, how about they compromise on USS Johnstown?
If we have a john Murtha, will the Benedict Arnold be next? or maybe the Alger Hiss?
One day there will be a U.S.S. Barack Hussein Obama.
Everything from the Nobel Prize awards to naming ships in the USN IS through a politically inspired liberal agenda.
The communists and their allies will soon name a ship “the USS Gay.” Nobody should mix up the time of naming a plane “Enola Gay” and nowadays hijacked language!
If we let the communist 0h0m0 stay beyond January ’13, we’ll see street names, buildings, museums, highways, etc. named after known homosexuals.
0h0m0’s address may very well be at the corner of “1600 Alternative Lifestyle Ave and Transgender BLVD.”
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