Posted on 11/18/2005 4:21:15 AM PST by StatenIsland
Whatever happened to Semper Fi?
Congressman John Murtha, Democrat of Pennsylvania, is a retired Marine colonel, decorated Vietnam veteran, ranking member of the House defense appropriations subcommittee, longtime supporter of the military and a noted hawk who was an early advocate of the U.S. incursion into Iraq - a man, in short, none would call faint of heart. When such a figure declares that the time has come for America to turn tail and bug out, his views carry more weight than do the similar assessments of the Dennis Kuciniches and Barbara Boxers and Cindy Sheehans of the world. But, sadly, he is as wrongheaded as they are, and Murtha might as well be sending up the white flag for all the terrorist gangs to see. Doubtless there is much rejoicing in Al Qaeda's rat holes this day over still another encouraging cut-and-run signal from U.S. shores that maybe someday soon, with U.S. troops pulled out, the rodents will have Iraq - and beyond - all to themselves.
Murtha's mouthings arrive hard on the heels of ex-President Bill Clinton, whose utterly disgraceful shame-on-America remarks in Dubai the other day could only have made it sufficiently plain to many millions of Middle Easterners, both those who are with us and those who are not, that the United States cannot be counted on to stand behind the historic mission that toppled the butcher Saddam Hussein, helped persuade crazed Libya to give up its nuclear intentions, was instrumental in driving Syria out of Lebanon and is daily leaning hard on the malevolent mullahs of Iran.
Defeatism, it's called. Willingness to give it all up. In Washington, it isn't so much the war effort is going badly as it is the poll numbers are going badly. Congress has a nervous eye on America's popular distemper, and many on Capitol Hill want some idea of a withdrawal deadline. But a commander would be mad to even consider setting such a deadline, inviting an implacable foe to sit tight and wait it out.
There's still a job to be done - a miserable slog, no doubt, and one, it is true, that could and should have been undertaken more efficiently from the beginning. But the job cannot be left unfinished. Yes, defeatism is in the American wind, there's no question about that. It must not prevail. For what is already in the wind far across the sea is the gleeful, hideous laughter of a triumphant enemy.
Hey, I like that. I just might copyright it. :-)
Murtha is just another Rat. I don't care what he used to be.
How about it, Hillie?
Do you support what your husband said and where he said it?
...somebody forgot to give them their shots
All this loudmouth Monday morning quarterbacking will continue and become more boisterous as the next national election approaches. If you hyperventilate now, you are only reinforcing and validating the absurd pitch of hysteria the Liberals have achieved to date. Let them rant because the more the do, the less credible they are (if that is possible). Anyway, with their MSM cheerleaders, the last thing they need is Conservative complicity in validating and magnifying their gratuitous dissent on the issue of US/coalition efforts against terrorism.
I still think Bush has a big surprise for all of them, just waiting, waiting, waiting.
A fifth grade school girl and boy in the USA realize that we are fighting a third world war, and it is not just in Iraq.
follow the money, Soros bought and paid for him probably. Much cheaper to buy a couple of key folks than the ads and other things he has been paying for.
With fellow citizens like that, who needs enemies.
Is Murtha a French name?
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I'd still like a for-the-record response from her on what Bubba said in Dubai.
They say one a marine always a marine, Its a nice saying but it isnt always true. To Democrat politicians the party comes before anything. Mother, Country , Corps.
And someone might want to remind Democrats, yet again, that Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman were not military veterans, so they can shove the "Cheney Chickenhawk" bluster up there where the sun don't shine - which is, coincidentally, where their brains lie.
Colonels get to be Colonels by blindly follwing orders, even Marine Colonels.
Nancy pelosi says "jumb slug, screw your comrades, forget your allegiance to the men you served with, I'm in charge here, now do as I say or pay the penalty! Now pay allegiance to john kerry, the communist party and me!" and the Colonel jumps.
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