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Whatever happened to Semper Fi?
New York Daily News ^ | 11/18/05 | Editorial

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.


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President's smackdown comments today against Dems & Hagel

President Bush was later questioned about Vice President Cheney's remarks from yesterday:


Question: Mr. President, Vice President Cheney called it reprehensible for critics to question how you took the country to war, but Senator Hagel says it's patriotic to ask those kinds of questions. Who do you think is right?

PRESIDENT BUSH: The Vice President.

Question: Why?

PRESIDENT BUSH: Well, look, ours is a country where people ought to be able to disagree, and I expect there to be criticism. But when Democrats say that I deliberately misled the Congress and the people, that's irresponsible. They looked at the same intelligence I did, and they voted -- many of them voted to support the decision I made. It's irresponsible to use politics. This is serious business making -- winning this war. But it's irresponsible to do what they've done. So I agree with the Vice President.

PRESIDENT BUSH: I think people ought to be allowed to ask questions. It is irresponsible to say that I deliberately misled the American people when it came to the very same intelligence they looked at, and came to the -- many of them came to the same conclusion I did. Listen, I -- patriotic as heck to disagree with the President. It doesn't bother me. What bothers me is when people are irresponsibly using their positions and playing politics. That's exactly what is taking place in America.




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House Republicans that fought back today



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Senators to write in praise of....

Here is the list of the 13 Republican Senators who voted against the "cut-and-run light" resolution passed by the Senate yesterday with respect(actually that label is too strong, but it felt good using it):

Bunning, Burr, Chambliss, Coburn, DeMint, Graham, Inhofe, Isakson, Kyl, McCain, Sessions, Thune, and Vitter.

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Alexander, Lamar - (R - TN)
(202) 224-4944

Allard, Wayne - (R - CO)
(202) 224-5941

Allen, George - (R - VA)
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Baucus, Max - (D - MT)
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Bayh, Evan - (D - IN)
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Bennett, Robert - (R - UT)
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Biden, Joseph - (D - DE)
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Bingaman, Jeff - (D - NM)
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Bond, Christopher - (R - MO)
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Boxer, Barbara - (D - CA)
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Brownback, Sam - (R - KS)
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Bunning, Jim - (R - KY)
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Burns, Conrad - (R - MT)
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Burr, Richard - (R - NC)
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Byrd, Robert - (D - WV)
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Cantwell, Maria - (D - WA)
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Carper, Thomas - (D - DE)
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Chafee, Lincoln - (R - RI)
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Chambliss, Saxby - (R - GA)
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Clinton, Hillary - (D - NY)
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Cochran, Thad - (R - MS)
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Coleman, Norm - (R - MN)
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Collins, Susan - (R - ME)
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Conrad, Kent - (D - ND)
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Cornyn, John - (R - TX)
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Corzine, Jon - (D - NJ)
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Craig, Larry - (R - ID)
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Crapo, Michael - (R - ID)
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Dayton, Mark - (D - MN)
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DeMint, Jim - (R - SC)
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DeWine, Mike - (R - OH)
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Dodd, Christopher - (D - CT)
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Dole, Elizabeth - (R - NC)
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Domenici, Pete - (R - NM)
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Dorgan, Byron - (D - ND)
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Durbin, Richard - (D - IL)
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Ensign, John - (R - NV)
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Enzi, Michael - (R - WY)
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Feingold, Russell - (D - WI)
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Feinstein, Dianne - (D - CA)
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Frist, Bill - (R - TN)
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Graham, Lindsey - (R - SC)
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Grassley, Chuck - (R - IA)
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Gregg, Judd - (R - NH)
(202) 224-3324
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Hagel, Chuck - (R - NE)
(202) 224-4224

Harkin, Tom - (D - IA)
(202) 224-3254

Hatch, Orrin - (R - UT)
(202) 224-5251

Hutchison, Kay - (R - TX)
(202) 224-5922

Inhofe, James - (R - OK)
(202) 224-4721

Inouye, Daniel - (D - HI)
(202) 224-3934

Isakson, Johnny - (R - GA)
(202) 224-3643

Jeffords, James - (I - VT)
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Johnson, Tim - (D - SD)
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Kennedy, Edward - (D - MA)
(202) 224-4543

Kerry, John - (D - MA)
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Kohl, Herb - (D - WI)
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Kyl, Jon - (R - AZ)
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Landrieu, Mary -
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Lautenberg, Frank - (D - NJ)
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Leahy, Patrick - (D - VT)
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Levin, Carl - (D - MI)
(202) 224-6221

Lieberman, Joseph - (D - CT)
(202) 224-4041

Lincoln, Blanche - (D - AR)
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Lott, Trent - (R - MS)
(202) 224-6253
E-mail: senatorlott@lott.senate.gov

Lugar, Richard - (R - IN)
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Martinez, Mel - (R - FL)
(202) 224-3041

McCain, John - (R - AZ)
(202) 224-2235

McConnell, Mitch - (R - KY)
(202) 224-2541

Mikulski, Barbara - (D - MD)
(202) 224-4654

Murkowski, Lisa - (R - AK)
(202) 224-6665

Murray, Patty - (D - WA)
(202) 224-2621

Nelson, Bill - (D - FL)
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Nelson, Ben - (D - NE)
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Obama, Barack - (D - IL)
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Pryor, Mark - (D - AR)
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Reed, Jack - (D - RI)
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Reid, Harry - (D - NV)
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Roberts, Pat - (R - KS)
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Rockefeller, John - (D - WV)
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Salazar, Ken - (D - CO)
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Santorum, Rick - (R - PA)
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Sarbanes, Paul - (D - MD)
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Schumer, Charles - (D - NY)
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Sessions, Jeff - (R - AL)
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Shelby, Richard - (R - AL)
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Smith, Gordon - (R - OR)
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Snowe, Olympia - (R - ME)
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Specter, Arlen - (R - PA)
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Stabenow, Debbie - (D - MI)
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Stevens, Ted - (R - AK)
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Sununu, John - (R - NH)
(202) 224-2841

Talent, James - (R - MO)
(202) 224-6154

Thomas, Craig - (R - WY)
(202) 224-6441

Thune, John - (R - SD)
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Vitter, David - (R - LA)
(202) 224-4623

Voinovich, George - (R - OH)
(202) 224-3353

Warner, John - (R - VA)
(202) 224-2023

Wyden, Ron - (D - OR)
(202) 224-5244


41 posted on 11/18/2005 5:39:02 AM PST by Soul Seeker (Mr. President: It is now time to turn over the money changers' tables.)
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To: StatenIsland
As a Viet Nam vet, and an officer to boot, Murtha should know better than anyone what this kind of talk can do to embolden an enemy.

Wonder what he thought of it all those years ago?

42 posted on 11/18/2005 5:40:21 AM PST by CaptRon (Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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To: StatenIsland

Thank God these traitors weren't influential during WWII or Hitler would certainly have won. Shame on the Democrats, this country's cheese-eating surrender monkeys. Next they'll be flying the French white flag of surrender over the DNC headquarters.


43 posted on 11/18/2005 5:40:59 AM PST by kittymyrib
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To: Toespi
I still think Bush has a big surprise for all of them, just waiting, waiting, waiting.

I'm beginning to lose any faith that the Bush administration will ever release anything that will shut them up... And the media will never release anything that goes against what the dems say.

Mark

44 posted on 11/18/2005 5:48:46 AM PST by MarkL (I didn't get to where I am today by worrying about what I'd feel like tomorrow!)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Lee Harvey Oswald was a Marine.So was Scott Ritter.While the large majority of Marines,past and present,deserve our gratitude and respect,not all do.

I believe that you can add Charlie Rangle and former senator Chaffee (Lincoln Chafee's father) to the list as well. Both are despicable.

Mark

45 posted on 11/18/2005 5:50:12 AM PST by MarkL (I didn't get to where I am today by worrying about what I'd feel like tomorrow!)
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To: StatenIsland
Harry Truman were not military veterans

Actually, Truman serverd honorably (I believe in an artillery unit) during WWI.

Mark

46 posted on 11/18/2005 5:51:11 AM PST by MarkL (I didn't get to where I am today by worrying about what I'd feel like tomorrow!)
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To: stocksthatgoup
To possibly strike now on US soil? Is there a better time for Al Quaida to strike long and deep?

I don't think that the US is quite at the point of a surrender if there's another attack on US soil. Of course, the media would wet their pants, but I don't think that the public would be quite as cowardly as the congress. I think an attack on US soil would piss more people off, although there would be plenty of play in the media of "we forced them to do it!"

A strike here would be a bad idea right now. But maybe sometime next year, before the election...

Mark

47 posted on 11/18/2005 5:55:03 AM PST by MarkL (I didn't get to where I am today by worrying about what I'd feel like tomorrow!)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

I also posted this in another thread. This is what I faxed to Murtha:

Congressman Murtha;

I am a Viet Nam era American male who has never served in the military. I did not volunteer and I received a high number in the draft lottery. However, I do, sir, recognize cowardice and disloyalty when I see it and hear it - and yesterday I saw it and heard it from you.

There are American boys and American girls dead today because of your remarks; I hope you can live with that. It is useless for me to point out that your statement gave inestimable aid and comfort to our enemies, you must have factored that into your shameless political calculations.

Lives for votes, Congressman, and for a moment on the national stage.

Was it, is it, worth it? Semper Fi, indeed.


48 posted on 11/18/2005 5:59:18 AM PST by StatenIsland
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To: StatenIsland

Murtha now uses Semper Vapulus


49 posted on 11/18/2005 6:00:49 AM PST by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghanistan Honor Roll students.)
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To: MarkL

Lincoln was also a capt. in the Black Hawk war in
1832.


50 posted on 11/18/2005 6:01:58 AM PST by model 1894
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To: StatenIsland

I usually would be the last one to jump on a former Marine; Obviously, the fact that he showed up with Pelosi shows that maybe he has something medical going on.

The reporter should have included this as well.


October 23, 2003
The "NO" Vote - Peterson, Murtha Screw Our Soldiers
http://www.seamuspress.com/archives/rep_john_murtha/

Excerpt:
Peterson wasn't the only Pennsylvania legislator opposed to the pay raise for soldiers. Murtha (D) not only voted against it but he also argued against it on the floor. Murtha also voted to raise his own pay (but didn't even bother to change it afterwards). I suppose that adding to their individual wealth is more important to them than helping out the soldiers they put at risk (remember both of these hypocrits supported the war).


51 posted on 11/18/2005 6:08:47 AM PST by AliVeritas (Weldon Ops, Earle Fatwa Team, Pork Jihadi, MOOSEMUSS, Stick Brigade, Go Steele)
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To: StatenIsland

trea·son (trzn) KEY

NOUN:

Violation of allegiance toward one's country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one's country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies.
A betrayal of trust or confidence.


52 posted on 11/18/2005 6:10:51 AM PST by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it! ..Anybody got a peanut.....)
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To: MarkL

The recent campaign by the Bush administration against the dems can be one of two things. W is scared and is "lashing out," or he is prepping the battlefield for what he knows will win the war.


53 posted on 11/18/2005 6:10:56 AM PST by Toespi
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To: StatenIsland

Benedict Arnold was a soldier too.


54 posted on 11/18/2005 6:12:03 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: syriacus; All

I find his decision interesting (not just because he gave it with Pelosi either); Check out who his top contributors have been, then go to top industries and to the 2005-2006 profile:

http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allcontrib.asp?CID=N00001408


55 posted on 11/18/2005 6:18:34 AM PST by AliVeritas (Weldon Ops, Earle Fatwa Team, Pork Jihadi, MOOSEMUSS, Stick Brigade, Go Steele)
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To: usmcobra
Congressman John Murtha is in for a big surprise when he get to the gate. Chesty will be waiting to beat the living $@#* out of him.

The Tunn Tavern Division will make heaven a living hell for him.

56 posted on 11/18/2005 6:28:56 AM PST by Jarhead1957 (Semper Fi)
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To: Jarhead1957

He'll be a hooker in hell, such is the fate of all EX-Marines.


57 posted on 11/18/2005 6:36:39 AM PST by usmcobra (30 years since I first celebrated The Marine Corps Birthday as a Marine)
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To: StatenIsland

Wasn't Lincoln in the Black Hawk War?


58 posted on 11/18/2005 6:41:26 AM PST by Freedom_Fighter_2001 (When money is no object - it's your money they're talking about)
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To: StatenIsland
Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman were not military veterans,

Lincoln, three months in the Illinois Militia during the Blackhawk War and Truman both served.

59 posted on 11/18/2005 6:43:43 AM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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To: StatenIsland

Democrats always revert to form, regardless of how well trained they have been in the past. I served with a few Marines in the early 70s who could not wait to get out and protest the war -- most of them were probably among the last drafted by the USMC.


60 posted on 11/18/2005 6:44:24 AM PST by RJS1950 (The rats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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