Posted on 11/21/2005 9:24:07 AM PST by Reagan Man
Is he a leader or follower?
he's got one part right.. "We cannot win this militarily. Our tactics themselves keep us from winning."
if we were to actually go out and truly be allowed to fight, we could make this end very quickly, but the pansies with "D"'s by their name bring us up short, as does the MSM. not to mention our devout adherance to military codes of conduct, that our enemies don't follow.
The DU public, perhaps.
You are correct, citizens never get to vote on wars. Neither the citizens of Britain or the Colonies, neither the citizens of Germany, Japan, or the Muslim countries, or any of the Allies.
The people that actually do the fighting, never get much of a sayso, when it comes to wars.
REAL Americans think Murtha is a drunken Rat pu$$y.
>>>"We cannot win this militarily. Our tactics themselves keep us from winning,">>>
Way to keep up the moral COLONEL. Colonel Jerk more like it!
I especially am offended that he called our military "the enemy".....doddering, senile old fool.
Unfortunately for him and his Party, the 'Pubs figured out a way to expose the truth on Friday.
"Many Democratic political strategists and foreign policy analysts have long believed the party can benefit more from criticizing Bush's handling of the war than from specifying an alternative."
"I didn't want (the public) to think this was a Democrat position plotted from the left wing," Murtha said."
Of course we don't think that.
Read the entire "The Hill" article, very interesting.
http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/101805/spending.html
"But Murtha also has raised some watchdogs concerns because his brother Robert Kit Murtha runs KSA Consulting, a lobbying group that represents some 10 smaller defense companies. In 2004, Murthas brother was able to secure $20 million in the defense-spending bill for his clients. Kit Murtha repeatedly has denied working directly with his brothers office"
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/11/19/095435.php
"Republican lawmakers say that ties between Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) and his brother's lobbying firm, KSA Consulting, may warrant investigation by the House ethics committee...
According to a June 13 article in the Los Angeles Times, the fiscal 2005 defense appropriations bill included more than $20 million in funding for at least 10 companies for whom KSA lobbied. Carmen Scialabba, a longtime Murtha aide, works at KSA as well.
KSA directly lobbied Murtha's office on behalf of seven companies, and a Murtha aide told a defense contractor that it should retain KSA to represent it, according to the LA Times.
In early 2004, Murtha reportedly leaned on U.S. Navy officials to sign a contract to transfer the Hunters Point Shipyard to the city of San Francisco, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. A company called Lennar Inc. had right to the land, and Laurence Pelosi, nephew to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), was an executive with the firm at that time.
Murtha also inserted earmarks in defense bills that steered millions of dollars in federal research funds toward companies owned by children of fellow Pennsylvania Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D). .."
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/GOP_calls_for_ethics_investigation_into_1118.html
http://dailydelay.blogspot.com/2005_06_01_dailydelay_archive.html
http://corner.nationalreview.com/05_11_13_corner-archive.asp
http://www.thepoliticalchase.com/
http://blogs.aol.fr/demorpion/R-Actions
"The chairman of the Defense Appropriations subcommittee at the time, Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), had been caught in the FBI's ABSCAM sting operation in which an agent disguised as a Saudi sheik offered members of Congress large cash bribes. O'Neill put Wilson on the Ethics Committee to save Murtha, which he did."
I honestly do not believe that we can wipe terrorism from the planet. I think there will always be those that commit random acts of violence.
He was once my congressman, and he should have done that about 25 years ago!
Good stuff. Thanks.
put a sock in it, Mr. Murtha.
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