I suspect they are more likely to spin it as the local Iraqi population giving a vote of confidence to Murtha. 'Republicans shut down Democratic efforts to end unjust war; Iraqi's call for withdrawal'. Even Fox headlined the call for a timetable which is a direct political slap in the administrations face. The media and the dims could easily play this as "legitimate resistance", albeit political in nature, to the jack-boot, neocon, imperialist, war for oil and haliburton, poorly planned, fraudulent, illegal, torturous, unilateral, fascist attempt at world hegemony by the republicans.
The non-terrorist Iraqi population has been summarily ignored by the media throughout their doom and gloom reporting. Lets see if the media suddenly insists on hearing the voice of the people now that they've found quotable "representatives" who are providing "withdrawal timetable" headlines.
A great point, and one that I have been unable to make clear to others.
Who needs to "spin" this at all? It says fighting our soldiers is legitimate resistance, doesn't it? No member of US Congress or MSNBC put that language in there.