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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.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Traitor yes.
I can believe it. I was in the service then and saw quite a few "Murtha's" in the senior NCO ranks and in the barely competent middle management corps of "Light" colonels. Their service was to themselves and not to the country. Murtha, I believe, is a classic "Colonel Blimp". His kind was the reason that Barry Goldwater included the "Up or Out" provision in his legislation that created the all volunteer services.
You could have asked me if I had stopped beating my wife.
Look, Free Speech is messy - deal with it.
Ditto.
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Murtha took many years of service to America in the military and congress and threw it all out the window in a span of one week. Now he is nothing more than the November version of Cindy Sheehan, a puppet of the media to be disgarded when the holidays take over and no one cares to pay attention again.
What effect do they think they have had?
Reminds me of the Dave chapelle skit on women dressed like ho's.
Women dressed like ho's say angrily to men who make assumptions about them, "Just because I dress this way does not make me a whore"
D.C.: "ok, imagine I wear a cop's uniform and someone comes running up screamin 'officer, thank god, help us! Wait Wait, just because I dress this way, does not make me a policeman".
D.C: "women, just because you dress that way does not make you a whore, but you are wearing a whores uniform"
Murtha may not be a coward, but he sure is advocating a defeatist cowardly policy.
I have a feeling we are going to hear a lot more from Jean Schmidt.
Whatever he might have been in 1966 is irrelevant to what he has become in the interim.
In that context he is indeed a traitor and proved it by voting against his own idea.
You're making tons of assumptions and I won't try to knock down your straw men. The voters in the PA 12th District will decide Murtha's future.
I agree with you on the name calling. I wish the media and others would report the truth though,she was reading aloud a letter from a Marine. As I understood it the Marine called all of those calling for US to pull out of Iraq cowards, not just Murtha. As usual the media is distorting the truth, and I notice also as usual the distortions are designed to make the dims look good.
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30 years ago he would have been a traitor but today that word means little. Coward doesn't even apply. He's just a lib. See tagline.
Murtha is a political animal, not in charge of his own destiny, but one who has been coopted by the democrat leadership to say and do things which he probably does not have a desire to say. I think he got together with Reid et.al and they devised a 'make-believe' strategy for devicive, rank, political motives which negatively impact our finest American citizens, the military, and undermines the interest of the USA. In otherwords, he is a g****mn democrat.
In that context he is indeed a traitor and proved it by voting against his own idea."
Never blame on malice what you can explain with stupidity.
Thrown what out the window. Since when was it determined that all those with military service have to fall in line with what the current administration deems appropriate? I don't agree with everything W is doing. Does that make me a non-patriot?
Is that different than being a democrat?
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