Murtha: Generals All Agree With Me, Even When They Don't (Hardball 11/30/05)

Hardball w/ Hissy Matthspews (Transcript) ^ | 30 November 2005

[Stultis]

Why won't these Generals admit they agree with Murtha?! How to explain their bizarre obstinancy!? Delusion? Senility?

[Steven W.]

no, much easier & more likely scenario is that Murtha is capable of mindreading. He posesses the uncanny ability to clearly forsee the future and to tell what people are thinking, even when they do their best to block his attempts at mind control.

[JOE43270]

murtha may have been a MARINE though I feel that most MARINES and all the rest of us that are wearing uniforms today and those of us that wore uniforms in the past want him to SHOVE OFF!

[Last Dakotan]

I listened to his rantings on NPR driving home. Basically he claims that all the officers know they will be fired if they publicly state Iraq is a lost cause, so they have to tell him this in private.

If we want to get to the truth just have congressional hearings.

[edwinland]

And he's saying in so many words, we've become the enemy. That's what General Casey said.

Not a chance in the world General Casey said that. Not in so many words and not in so few.

[swheats]

No muzzle big enough I guess for this guy.

[darkwing104]

The force is stong in this Jedi...

[OldFriend]

Once before I heard Murtha say that the Generals can't speak against the Commander in Chief, as is correct.......but he KNOWS they aren't happy.

Murtha must be channelling Art Bell.

[Ann Archy]

Soooooo, Abasaid and Casey think WE are the enemy?????? FIRE THEM, PRESIDENT BUSH!

[OldFriend]

Murtha used those exact words when he told slick willie to cut and run from Somalia after our Rangers were killed.

[Stultis]

Of course. What Casey DID say was that there was a balance that had to be struck. You need enough troops to do the job, but at the same time want to keep the military "footprint" as small as otherwise possible to minimize the perception of "occupation".

When Casey said this, months ago, Murtha was still calling for a ponderous and impossible Shinseki-sized occupation! (But maybe, back then, Murtha was just refusing to "admit" that he agreed with himself?)

[Ann Archy]

I think Murtha has been LIVING A LIE!! I have ALWAYS heard him described as PRO-MILITARY! He WATS them to leave with their tail between their legs! That is NOT pro-military. Maybe Murtha is senile.

[jennyjenny]

So Murtha says there's a general complaining about not having enough troops and what Murtha wants to do is start bringing them home now?

[kimoajax]

Anybody remember how a certain Repubican congressman just prior to being indicted during the Clintoon administration made a lot of controversial statements...so later, after the indictments came down he could claim was being targeted for his comments. Sounds familier here. Anything going on with this guy?

[Shqipo]

Murtha is drifting into the "Sheehan Zone"-- let him keep going. The best thing now would be for the House Dems to put forward legislation worded whatever way they want for an immediate withdrawal, and for the Republicans to press for a vote on it.

[Lancer_N3502A]

I think Murtha's elevator has stopped going to the top floor.

[NorthEastRepublican]

I agree completely. Murtha served in Vietnam and WAS a patriot. I do not know if I can say the same about a man who is rooting for an American loss to demean President Bush. A man who lowers American morale while raising that of the enemy is not a patriot.

[af_vet_1981]

Murtha is senile and/or a traitor.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Murtha served in Vietnam and WAS a patriot.

Then we've seen two patriots fall from grace recently: Murtha and Duke Cunningham.

[OldFriend]

Murtha is pro military contracts for his friends.

Other than that, he's been a tail between the legs coward all this while.

Said that we were the enemy in Somalia so we should cut and run.

Using that same terminology in reference to Iraq.

He's never been a hawk.

He is being investigated for steering contracts to friends.