Let me show you a REAL Marine. One who served active duty in 3 wars.
You aren't fit to mow the grass on his grave.
Posted on 11/19/2005 6:01:56 PM PST by Nasty McPhilthy
I was on the air last night when the House Republicans decided it was time to pull the liberals’ punk card. In a brilliant conservative stratagem that revealed to America just how spineless the Democratic Party has become, only three left-wingers voted for an immediate surrender to al Qaeda in Iraq. Those were the only three Democrats to vote for capitulation to Osama. It was a classic case of "put up or shut up." The Dems shut up.
None of the three was Rep. John Murtha, whose transparent stunt the day before in calling for the United States to lay down in arms, retreat, surrender and then negotiate with al Qaeda, blew up in the Dems’ faces for all the world to see. Murtha himself refused to vote for his own cowardly demand.
The theatrics were laughable. Rep. Harold E. Ford Jr. of Tennessee, feeling like a tough guy, charged Republican Rep. Jean Schmidt when, at the podium, she told the House of a call she had just received from a Marine colonel who said only cowards cut and run, and that Marines never do.
Ford, being a violent, intolerant liberal wanting to beat up a woman, tipped his hand very nicely. Now we all know how he feels about that whole disgusting freedom-of-speech thing. Of course, had that Marine colonel been at the podium, Ford would have known better than to charge the Leatherneck, which would have instantly resulted in Ford’s graphic demise. The wannabe bully of women made many wonder if he has assaulted and intimidated women before last night’s thwarted attack. I found it fascinating how Ford was vehemently defending a liberal colonel’s opinion but attacked the opposing opinion of a conservative colonel.
As my previous column on Murtha shot to #1 on Google when the words "Murtha" and "traitor" were typed in, I was receiving hundreds of emails from irate liberals furious with a Marine willing to express an opinion different from their own; the opinion that victory and killing terrorists wherever we find them is far more desirable that retreat, surrender and negotiation with an enemy that has killed more than 5,000 Americans in four years. Death wishes and threats of extreme violence were part and parcel of some of the emails from the peace-loving liberals. One woman expressed how sad she was that my name isn’t on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, aka "The Wall." (I am not a Vietnam vet.) A fellow from Honolulu threatened to come to Denver to beat me senseless. He hasn’t shown up yet. Most liberals wrote to say I have no right to my opinion; they feel the 1 st Amendment applies only to Americans who share their opinion. And nearly all who wrote to express their hatred and intolerance said that a decorated combat veteran must never be challenged on his beliefs. Odd how they ignored my status in that very genre.
I wonder where the liberals got the notion that liberal veterans must be granted a free pass for life and never be held accountable for the words and actions after military service. Curious how liberals do not feel the same about conservative veterans. In reality, no veteran should be given such a pass. Past deeds should have nothing to do with current and future deeds and words.
Speaking of not backing up one’s bravado, what does it say about Murtha, a retired Marine Reserve colonel, when one day he demands in an embarrassing tirade that the Marines immediately retreat and surrender to al Qaeda, an act he demanded be followed by formal negotiations with al Qaeda, and the next day he refuses to vote for his own demands? Such a lack of intestinal fortitude is almost unheard of in Marines, who have a 230-year history of backing up their words with actions. The enemy bodies forming a trail of destruction from Tripoli, Belleau Wood and Iwo Jima to Khe Sanh and Fallujah attest to that fact.
I also received many emails from enraged Marines who want the traitor’s name stricken from the Corps’ rolls. World War II vets wrote and called into my show to express with crystal clarity their extreme anger with Murtha’s insistence that retreat, surrender and negotiation with terrorists was America’s best option. When America’s "greatest generation" goes off on Murtha and the target of their anger insults and degrades them for disagreeing with his plan for surrender, it tells me that there are still many Americans out there who understand what is at stake in this war on terror. And it tells me that we still have a chance to defeat al Qaeda, despite millions of Americans’ totally unsupported belief that retreat and surrender and negotiating with terrorists is a sound battle plan.
Friday night, the Democrats in the House of Representatives exposed their hypocrisy and unwillingness to act upon their self-proclaimed credo. The world now sees them for what they truly are, and that may be the best news for America in quite some time.
Bob Newman
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Where have you served strategofr and what's your point?
BTW, I haven't.
BTTT
Unfortunately, the media is carrying the dem traitor's water and reporting this as a stunt. At least KCRA in Sacramento was. Not surprising though.
Actually, Murtha is just liek John Glenn, a Marine who is a legitimate combat vet who turned tail in his old age.
Murtha makes me ashamed that he is from Penna.
Self delusion is the only play the Dem's have in their book.
"Newman was with me on the USS Okinawa in 1980 when he was with RECON, and he served for another 15 or 16 years afterwards."
Thanks. I suppose he was probably in Desert Storm then.
"ground combat veteran of the Gulf War." "
thanks.
"Ford, being a violent, intolerant liberal wanting to beat up a woman, tipped his hand very nicely. "
Wrong Ford, the one you are talking about had to step down because he was busted in an FBI undercover sting operation. The one on Heartland tonight is his nephew and a Congressman for Memphis.
I smell a Zot! on your horizon.
"Where have you served strategofr and what's your point? "
Didn't serve. No point. I have an interest in military history and was just curious.
The key here is what he is doing and saying now. My father, for example, never, ever abandoned his conservatism, his loyalty to the Marines, his country or his principles. He was a Marine and man of honor when he died 36 years after retiring from the Corps. Rep Murtha's Viet experience notwithstanding, he has abandoned any principles he may have once had.
Ditto for John Glenn.
""War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things"
Thanks for posting.
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| Posted by Stultis On Bloggers & Personal ^ 11/17/2005 8:14:19 PM CST · 24 replies · 201+ views Men's News Daily ^ | 17 November 2005 | Bob Newman ("Gunny Bob") In a statement that has angered, embarrassed and humiliated Marines around the globe, one of our own -- a retired Marine Corps Reserve colonel -- has called for the legendary fighting force to retreat from Iraq and surrender to the terrorist organization that has killed thousands of Americans at home and abroad. He has even called for the United States to enter into negotiations with al Qaeda. This vermin’s demand for retreat, surrender and negotiations with the enemy is so committed to assisting al Qaeda in their efforts in Iraq that he has posted his unspeakable demands on his... |
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