[FB Rendevous]

So, in your view, Jack Murtha isn't a "good military man". What, pray tell, are your bona fides in determining this? Murtha has been on the side of the troops for as long as he's been in Congress. His heroism in combat is unquestioned. I fervently believe that he is flat wrong on this issue, but step softly around me before labeling him a "coward" or "not a good military man". We sound just like the DUmmies when we smear honorable men because we disagree with them.

[JCEccles]

Murtha votes to give our soldiers boots and BDUs, but tells them they have failed, have "become the enemy," are the cause of terrorism in the Middle East, and buoys up the flagging spirits of the terrorists that seek to kill them.

From your perspective, because he buys them boots and BDUs, he's a "fine military man"?

[bvw]

You have some issues. "Bona fides" is a meaningless slap from the same rotten bucket of fish entrails as "gravitas". Find a short pier and take a long hike.

[bvw]

Just to call your weak hand on this -- what "bona fides" did General Knox have? Or any other military genius who sprang into genius-hood on the field with no prior military experience?

[hinckley buzzard]

His heroism in combat is unquestioned.

Tell us about his "heroism in combat." I don't believe I've actually heard about anything he did in Nam, other than get wounded somehow.