"Iraq can't be won militarily.
Iraq can't be won militarily, it can only be won Politically."
We must end this occupation of Iraq immediately. if we do that, the Sunnis will join in and Iraq will be at peace.
The first part is a direct quote, the second part I'm paraphrasing what Murtha just said, ending his bloviating and self aggrandisment on the House floor, to the applause of all the rest of the cut & runners.
This has been absolutely sickening.
What an egomaniac this man is.
Leave it to a blowhard democrat politician to believe that only a politician can end a war.
The fact that he has become a fool who can't even learn from a war in which he fought, or indeed, the entire history of the world outweighs any honor he has earned while wearing the Marine Uniform, or being a "hawkish" Dem in Congress.
How many millions died in Southeast Asia immediately after the ignorant, the media and the leftists (but I repeat myself) forced us to cut and run from Viet Nam.