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MURTHA URGED SOMALIA PULLOUT IN 1993
Newsmax ^ | 11-21-05 | Newsmax Staff

Posted on 11/21/2005 7:31:25 AM PST by freedom4me

After terrorists attacked U.S. troops in Mogadishu, Somalia 12 years ago, anti-Iraq war Democrat, Rep. John Murtha urged then-President Clinton to begin a complete pullout of U.S. troops from the region.

Clinton took the advice and ordered the withdrawal - a decision that Osama bin Laden would later credit with emboldening his terrorist fighters and encouraging him to mount further attacks against the U.S.

"Our welcome has been worn out," Rep Murtha told NBC's "Today" show in Sept. 1993, after the Mogadishu battle cost the lives of 18 U.S. Rangers.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1993; cutandrunmurtha; mogadishu; murtha; pullout; somalia; x42
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To: freedom4me

So, per Osama himself, Mousy Murtha bears some responsibility for 9-11-05.


61 posted on 11/21/2005 10:51:22 AM PST by PeoplesRepublicOfWashington (Dream Ticket: Cheney/Rice '08)
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To: CitadelArmyJag

Somalia I could sort of understand just given the human disaster involved but in no way under the command of the UN


62 posted on 11/21/2005 10:54:21 AM PST by misterrob
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To: freedom4me
"Cowards Democrats cut and run. Marines never do."

There.....fixed it.

63 posted on 11/21/2005 10:58:15 AM PST by OB1kNOb (We're gonna boogie oogie woogie til we just can't boogie no more..............)
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To: PeoplesRepublicOfWashington

9-11-01


64 posted on 11/21/2005 11:00:08 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: freedom4me

And that was when he was much more freshly out of Viet Nam and should have known and understood what murthaing means to the war fighters on the ground. Apparently this coward never learned a thing from Viet Nam.


65 posted on 11/21/2005 11:10:05 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (We will never murtha to the terrorists. Bring home the troops means bring home the war.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Thanks.


66 posted on 11/21/2005 11:19:56 AM PST by PeoplesRepublicOfWashington (Dream Ticket: Cheney/Rice '08)
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To: Mo1

From "War Hawk" to "Black Hawk Down"


67 posted on 11/21/2005 2:10:21 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper ("Tucker Carlson could reveal himself as a castrated, lesbian, rodeo clown ...wouldn't surprise me")
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To: Peach
As the Vice President just pointed out, we've cut and run too many times. And it's emboldened the terrorists.

Somalia, like WTC I bombing, the USS Cole bombing, and the Khobar Towers bombing, was nothing more than a test of Bill Clinton's resolve.

The terrorists know that through a series of bombings, Spain is going to buckle, France is going to buckle, and America will buckle if liberalism is in the drivers seat.

President Bush has made it clear, the WOT will probably be around for generations, but the upshot of that is, Liberalism will probably be destroyed in the process.

68 posted on 11/21/2005 2:21:31 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper ("Tucker Carlson could reveal himself as a castrated, lesbian, rodeo clown ...wouldn't surprise me")
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To: freedom4me
Does Murtha have any children?
His obsession with "pulling out" would make him being a father an unlikely event.
69 posted on 11/21/2005 2:42:46 PM PST by msnimje (Bob Woodward is the Grinch who stole Fitzmas.....................................................)
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To: freedom4me

John "Onan" Murtha.


70 posted on 11/21/2005 2:44:30 PM PST by Rastus
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To: BigSkyFreeper
I just listened to a female reporter for FNC who returned from Iran. Even the old Ayatollahs in Iran said that secular democracy in Iraq will be good for Iran because it will make them clean up their own act. Whoa!

That was eye opening.

And that the left wants this to FAIL is obvious and odious.
71 posted on 11/21/2005 3:31:29 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: finnman69
Mr. MURTHA. Mr. Speaker, let me just make a couple of points.
I expressed my opposition to our deployment to Somalia when it began. When I went to the White House, I expressed my concern to President Bush.
I said, `This is a mistake, we shouldn't deploy under these circumstances,

Hmmmmmm...
I remember when Papa Bush invaded Somalia...
It was the doggone weirdest military operation I've ever seen...
Marines and special ops forces hitting the beach dressed up in their night vision gear trying to be stealthy --- and getting chased through the brush by TV camera crews with floodlights and microphones....

Klinton was horrible, but it's hard to believe that our only alternative was going back to the same bunch of idiots who orchestrated THAT whacknut photo-op.

72 posted on 11/21/2005 3:52:50 PM PST by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: freedom4me
"Our welcome has been worn out," Rep Murtha told NBC's "Today" show in Sept. 1993, after the Mogadishu battle cost the lives of 18 U.S. Rangers.

Didn't that battle take place in October 1993?

73 posted on 11/21/2005 4:00:30 PM PST by operation clinton cleanup
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To: Peach
I just listened to a female reporter for FNC who returned from Iran. Even the old Ayatollahs in Iran said that secular democracy in Iraq will be good for Iran because it will make them clean up their own act. Whoa!

I'd have to see that to believe it.

74 posted on 11/21/2005 4:38:48 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper ("Tucker Carlson could reveal himself as a castrated, lesbian, rodeo clown ...wouldn't surprise me")
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To: Mo1

Murtha called for us to leave Somalia? Quite the "hawk" this man is...NOT!


75 posted on 11/21/2005 5:47:21 PM PST by nopardons
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To: freedom4me

saving.


76 posted on 11/21/2005 8:18:02 PM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: OldFriend

He channels like Edwards?


77 posted on 11/21/2005 8:25:09 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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