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I'll just throw out that he said tonight, on 60 minutes, he quit college to volunteer for 'Nam and he made exemplary mention of how his mother cried....

WTF? He was born June 17, 1932. In his 1967 deployment to Nam we would have been 35. That's old to be a college student

From his Wikipedia entry, he joined the Marine Reserves in 1952 "during the Korean War". No mention of any actual deployment overseas

He did his high school at the Kiki School, an all-boy boarding prep school (indicating his family had money)

Murtha left Washington and Jefferson college in 1952 to join the Marines. After his active-duty stint, he ran a car wash, got his degree in economics from U Pittsburg.

I'd like to know more about him

>>>I'll just throw out that he said tonight, on 60 minutes, he quit college to volunteer for 'Nam and he made exemplary mention of how his mother cried....

>>>WTF? He was born June 17, 1932. In his 1967 deployment to Nam we would have been 35. That's old to be a college student

Ok, maybe I'm starting to see the set up here.

We have been seeing on these threads:

- don't go after Murtha
- Murtha is a setup
- Murtha is senile.
- FR shouldn't go after Murtha
- Republicans shouldn't go after Murtha
- No one BUT the Vets should go after Murtha

Now, we are seeing Murtha acting like he is senile.

He is publicly misspeaking about points on his record that he should not have wrong.

Was Murtha used? Do some final transaction take place (the Code Pink thing) and then they were going to retire him?

Was he suppose to bring down the credibility of the Swift Vets with him???

(hence, only the Swift Vets should attack)

I'd like to know more about him

Fine - but go slow and be careful. If he's a fake, then he'll be a fake next week, he'll be a fake next month and he'll be a fake next year.

I'd suggest you be patient with this, and don't go off half-cocked.

Sorry about my typo. Got Kerry on the brain? I guess I'm having trouble differentiating.

I've been looking at Murtha quite a bit this afternoon. Here are some tidbits...

He was an unindicted co-conspirator in Abscam...and on Nov 20 19980 testified against Reps. John Murphy and Frank Thompson.

Representative John P. 'Jack' Murtha (PA). Biographical · Issue Positions(NPAT) ...
www.vote-smart.org/extended_bio.php?can_id=H3460103
This is interesting. Look at all the awards. All dated 2000 and up. Nothing before that.

www.dailykos.com/story/2006/1/13/183744/029
"According to some wingnut on HuffPo (none / 1)
They're supposedly going to open up the cannons in April. If you read the comments under the Huffington Post article, you'll notice a troll called "crestedbutte" who keeps saying to wait until April for news about Murtha and that he was 'denied something'."

All that aside. I found this:
JOHN KERRY TAKES ON THE SWIFT VETS RETROACTIVELY
http://corner.nationalreview.com/05_11_13_corner-archive.asp#082964