Good morning, Alas. I want to hear one person quote anything that anyone from the Administration has said negative about Murtha. I have plenty of negative comments about him, but I don't count.
Don't hold your breath on getting an accurate quote from the media....they have inaccurately accused the congresswoman of calling Murtha a coward, when in fact, she was reading him a message from a soldier!
Murtha had been a critic of the current Iraq war in 2002, before it started?
"I won't stand for the swift-boating of Jack Murtha," Kerry said. The Democrats won't stand for taking Murtha's words seriously, which I take to be the real meaning "swift-boating."
Murtha himself declared, "All of Iraq must know Iraq is free -- free from United States occupation." I propose that Murtha go to the White House and throw John Kerry's medals over a fence at the Capitol in protest of the American "occupation" of Iraq, and that John Kerry then step forward to defend him from those of us who stand at the ready to "swift-boat" Murtha.
Good Morning, all! I wont be here for the morning as we are leaving for Mass in a few. Today is my wifes Rite of Initiation-she is no longer an infidel! Anyway, Id like to comment on how pleased I am with the last week. W comes out swinging on Veterans Day, followed by Cheney's speech, finally, the put-up or shut up vote that Gingrey and the House Republicans forced on Representative Facelift, and the rest of the America hating dems in the house. It was really great to see our side set the record straight and create fodder for rebuttal..
Though not mentioned in name I would include Murtha in the comments made by the VP at Frontiers of Freedom Institute Gala last week.
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Some of the most irresponsible comments have, of course, come from politicians who actually voted in favor of authorizing the use of force against Saddam Hussein. These are elected officials who had access to the intelligence, and were free to draw their own conclusions. They arrived at the same judgment about Iraq’s capabilities and intentions that -- made by this Administration and by the previous administration. There was broad-based, bipartisan agreement that Saddam Hussein was a threat, that he had violated U.N. Security Council Resolutions, and that, in a post-9/11 world, we could not afford to take the word of a dictator who had a history of weapons of mass destruction programs, who had excluded weapons inspectors, who had defied the demands of the international community, whose nation had been designated an official state sponsor of terror, and who had committed mass murder. Those are the facts. (Applause.)
What we’re hearing now is some politicians contradicting their own statements and making a play for political advantage in the middle of a war. The saddest part is that our people in uniform have been subjected to these cynical and pernicious falsehoods day in and day out. American soldiers and Marines are out there every day in dangerous conditions and desert temperatures –- conducting raids, training Iraqi forces, countering attacks, seizing weapons, and capturing killers –- and back home a few opportunists are suggesting they were sent into battle for a lie.
The President and I cannot prevent certain politicians from losing their memory, or their backbone -– but we’re not going to sit by and let them rewrite history. (Applause.) "
Office of the Press Secretary
November 18, 2005
Statement by the Press Secretary on Congressman Murtha's Statement
Congressman Murtha is a respected veteran and politician who has a record of supporting a strong America. So it is baffling that he is endorsing the policy positions of Michael Moore and the extreme liberal wing of the Democratic party. The eve of an historic democratic election in Iraq is not the time to surrender to the terrorists. After seeing his statement, we remain baffled -- nowhere does he explain how retreating from Iraq makes America safer.