"I had to come to FR for some sanity. Murtha's pointing fingers everywhere except at himself. If he's been on the defense appropriations subcommittee for 25 years how come all our equipment us now crap? In 1999 we were cannibalizing aircraft for spare parts-he kept his fat mouth shut then."
He was too busy diverting money back to his home district's pork barrel projects. And probably his pocket.
Sam--from what I've read here, Murtha is right behind Robert Byrd in the number of public works named after him.
What bothered me too is Tom Lantos speaking so highly of him. Tom Lantos was rescued from a Nazi concentration camp by American forces in 1945.
We were losing men at a high rate in 1945. If we had a Murtha moment in Feb. 1945 and redeployed away from the Nazis, Tom Lantos would have not seen 1946.
Of all people, he should know what is at stake here.