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Posted on 05/19/2006 7:56:19 AM PDT by kellynla
In the last year, ever since Tom DeLay became embroiled in the Jack Abramoff scandal, the Washington Post alone has published 168 articles mentioning Abramoff and DeLay. The Post's dogged Abramoff investigator, Susan Schmidt, has written 39 articles on Jack Abramoff in the last two years. Almost half of those made page A1 of the Post, and most were over 1,000 words in length. The Post has written enough about this scandal to fill a book -- literally -- and they probably will.
Since Rep. John Murtha made his splash in November with his call for an American troop withdrawal from Iraq, there have been no stories about Robert C. "Kit" Murtha in the Post. In fact, the Post has never mentioned Kit Murtha. A quick Lexis Nexis search turns up only a dozen or so mentions of "Kit" Murtha, Robert C. Murtha, or Robert Murtha in the last 15 years. Who is "Kit" Murtha?
He's John Murtha's brother -- a Washington lobbyist whose firm reeled in more than $20 million for its defense contractor clients in the 2004 Defense appropriations bill. And the Pennsylvania congressman is the ranking Democrat on the Defense appropriations subcommittee, which he also chaired for six years before Democrats lost the House in 1994.
It's a cozy relationship the likes of which are garnering heavy attention these days in Washington. Roy Blunt's family connections to K Street have received extensive coverage, as have Harry Reid's. Yet despite a front page story in the Los Angeles Times last June exposing Kit Murtha's firm's enormous success in steering defense contracts to its clients, other newspapers have been mostly silent: the Times has yet to follow up, and Murtha's lobbying ties have earned coverage by Roll Call and only single mentions in the Village Voice, Investor's Business Daily...
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"John Murtha was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Abscam scandal."
He should be tarred, feathered, then lit.
Murtha is about as dirty as they come, and they come real dirty.
Jack Murtha is mentioned several times in the ABSCAM files at the FBI's FOIA reading room.
"send extra words of encouragement and help to our soldiers and their families."
And lets all not forget that tomorrow is
ARMED FORCES DAY!
Semper Fi,
Kelly
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His charges without a trial are outrageous. Freepers should flood his email box with polite but accurate charges like the one above and tell him he is nothing but a hater of the Prez, our military and the war against Islamofacism. Write letters to papers denouncing his summer patriot stances. It is time that Gopers fight back against all these Dems who for 5 years have smeared the military and the Prez. The Party doesn't seem to have the guts to do it, so Gop voters have to take up the cudgels.
Moreover, if the killings were not in cold blood, then Murtha is slandering our troops by saying that they were. If the killings were in cold blood, then Murtha, in characterizing them as an overreaction to the pressure of the mission, is making an excuse for horrific crimes.
Tananto takes the analysis one step further when he points to the similarity of Murtha's "they were depraved because they were deployed" meme and the line that John Kerry peddled (based in large part on false allegations of war crimes) with respect to the war in Vietnam.
From Paul at Power Line.
better yet, support, donate and vote if you can for his opponent in November!
Personally I wonder if what he's doing is not an act to cover up his sleaze, or at least to get aid from the moonbats if the Feds come after him.
Bump to that!
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Thank you for the post kellynla!
Thank you!!!
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"It is time that Gopers fight back against all these Dems who for 5 years have smeared the military and the Prez."
Amen! We are working on it. Please help in any way you can!
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My Enemy's Enemy by George Crile
>>>It was only the beginning of the extraordinary maneuvers Wilson had to make to push this bill through a highly reluctant Congress. By then even his most reliable ally, John Murtha, the chairman of the Defense Appropriations subcommittee, wanted to end the CIA program. Murtha was appalled at reports of the mujahideen's drug trafficking, but in the end he stood with Charlie, and his support guaranteed the bill's passage in the House. It was passed in the Senate that fall. The secret appropriation was hidden in the $298 billion Defense bill for fiscal year 1992. When it was presented for a vote, no one but the interested few noticed the $200 million earmarked for the Afghans.<<<
More at the thread.
These monies also found their way to Sheik Rahman, the coordinator of WTC'93
This article appeared in the June 13th,2005 LA Times when the Times thought Murtha was a "hawk". When they realized Murtha had become the darling of the Sheehan/LSM crowd they pulled the article from their website. But it's in cyberspace and we have it archived here at FR.
Lobbyist's Brother Guided House Bill
Don't have time to post it Kelly, but thought you could use it on this thread.
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The despicable John Murtha, who hangs out with the likes of Code Pink, again has slandered our troops in Iraq by convicting them before all the facts are in:
From Chris Matthews show:
MATTHEWS: Draw us a picture of what happened in Haditha.
MURTHA: Well I'll tell you exactly what happened. One Marine was killed and the Marines just said we're gonna take care...we don't know who the enemy is, the pressure was too much on them, so they went into houses and actually killed civilians and...I...
MATTHEWS: Was this My Lai? When you say cold blood Congressman, a lot of people think you're basically saying you've got some civilians sitting in a room or out in a field and they're executed on purpose...
MURTHA: That's exactly what happened.
MATTHEWS: ...not because any of the Marines are scared or anybody is scared...
MURTHA: ...this was not an action...this was not...first they tried to say it was an IED, there was no IED involved in this. This was troops, they were so stressed out, they went into houses and killed children, women and children. 24 people they killed. Now this is the kind of stress they are under. Listen, I don't excuse it, but I understand what's happening and the responsibility goes right to the top. This is something that should not have happened, that should have been investigated, they've already relieved three commanding officers...but this is the kind of stuff...stress is going to cause these kind of things. That's why I'm so upset about it.
MATTHEWS: Congressman, I just want to read something from the Marine Corps and then you can continue. The Marine Corps told us today that they're not going to comment today because the investigation is still ongoing. So they're investigating...
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