Murtha didn't even have the balls to vote for what he was so ardently flapping his yap about. After saying over and over again we should withdraw from Iraq immediately, he couldn't even VOTE for his own course of action.
Respect is something you earn every day. It's not some status you're automatically accorded because of your past. He (and the Rats) lost any claim to Americans' respect when he maligned our war effort and then didn't have the cojones to back his own preferred course of action. Blatant hypocrites, all.
Yes....I can appreciate that John O'Neill is trying to distinguish Murtha from that treasonous idiot Kerry, but Murtha doesn't automatically get acclaim from THIS generation...
He is trying to make it possible that my two granddaughters are either killed for being Christian...or wearing burqas when they grow up.
I don't respect ANYONE that puts party over country.
It says a lot about a person's motives when they won't even vote for their own proposal. I see Murtha's been on the news since the vote and spewing the same garbage. If he was such a believer in a pullout, why didn't he vote for it. How he can now go before the cameras after voting "NO" on his own proposition is beyond me. I'd be too embarrassed to do so.
If you visit Mousie Murtha's website, you not only get to express your desire to keep the troops in theater until the job's done, you'll also see that Murtha is claiming that last week's resolution was not his. Good luck to him, but he's claiming that he doesn't want to pull the troops home, but rather out of harm's immediate way to the periphery, where they'll be safe but can monitor Iraqi progress and intervene when and where needed. Given that our troops are needed daily in many locations within Iraq, this seems to be an inefficient and patently stupid suggestion--especially coming from a Marine. But I'm wondering whether the 'Icans should call his bluff and vote on a new resolution to do just this. I wonder what the resulting vote would be? I suspect it wouldn't be all that different. You'll see from Mousie Murtha's poll that he's basically saying that if we don't immediately redeploy to the periphery, we should impose a draft to generate the numbers of troops needed to go in full strength and do it right. This guy seems seriously disturbed--either wimp out or put the nation on an all-out war footing and send in a million troops. Would it be fair to regard him as an extremist given that he's only comfy working at either extreme?