Posted on 11/20/2005 10:03:23 AM PST by Kitten Festival
The prize for the most dramatic oratory in the United States Congress in the new millennium goes to fledgling Representative Jean Schmidt. In the midst of debate over whether the House of Representatives should vote on a resolution endorsing immediate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq she conveyed a message she had received from an active duty Marine colonel, to Representative Jack Murtha. Murtha, a decorated Marine veteran, inspired the debate earlier this week by calling for withdrawal from Iraq.
Representative Smith’s message quoting the colonel was simple: “Cowards cut and run, Marines never do.” [snip] When people engage in debate within the boundaries of legitimate disagreement they should be respectful. But we need to maintain those boundaries.
Jack Murtha’s call for immediate disengagement took him far outside the boundaries of legitimate disagreement. He has never been able to articulate any plausible basis for his position on Iraq. There is a simple reason for that. There isn’t one.
Reasonable people cannot differ about whether or not the United States should press forward with our war against the terror masters. For the time being Iraq is inevitably the principal front in that war. A congressman who tries to duck his share of the responsibility for prosecuting that war is displaying moral cowardice. Any American who recommends retreat is injuring his own country and calling his own patriotism into question.
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I don't know if he's a coward, but he certainly is a traitor and a liar.
No. He's an old fool.
We can do without the names. I'm satisfied with "He's wrong."
I doubt Murtha is a coward. Unlike John F'n Kerry, he has actually "been there, done that" in significant combat, and has apparently had a long record of supporting the military.
On the other hand, I have no doubt at all that at this point he has fallen deep into error. Even warriors are not exempt from senile folly and/or political pressure.
Murtha is a traitor, President Bush's comments notwithstanding. For many reasons Bush cannot himself publicly acknowledge this truth.
He is both a coward and a traitor. Period.
He has provided sufficient evidence to justify both labels.
Before he was a traitor, Benedict Arnold was a war hero too!
BOTH!
Semper Fi'
Jarhead
He certainly belongs to the Democrat party THE party of COWARDS & TRAITORS.
Nah, he's just allowing himself to be used. Code Pink are traitors.
Jag!
He's not a coward, but his conduct is certainly treasonous and he may be demented too!
If someone wants to call John Murtha a coward and a traitor, have at it.
Nah, I wouldn't call him a coward.
Probably not even a traitor.
But he IS either senile or just plain foolish.
Either way, he should step down before he further destroys his reputation AND his country.
If it walks like a duck...
Congressman Billybob
Latest column: "What If the French Had Pulled a 'Murtha' in 1781?"
Time to focus on Murtha's stupid message, not his character. The White House press spokesman blew this one straight out of the gate by comparing Murtha to Michael Moore instead of blasting his stupid statement and pointing out its obvious pre-Thanksgiving-break timing.
Leave the character besmirching up to the bloggers! :-)
A Freeper, yesterday, dug up some G-2 on Murtha via the FOIA. Seems that Murtha may only be a "PX Hero". As for "supporting the military" a lot of Reps. do that and get kickbacks from defense contractors. He was almost caught by the FBI in the Abscam sting of the 1980's. I'm not ready to put Murtha into hero status until I've seen is DD-214 and his FBI file.
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