[Lancey Howard]

BUMP!

[TheCrusader]

"And what is Jack Murtha?"

A lying, liberal POS.

[AliVeritas]

BTTT

Dang Tex, I posted stuff weeks ago (duh, to another thread off topic, maybe Sunday Talk) ... I'll dig and post them here. Pray I find them.

[Thebaddog]

A man with one year in Vietnam as a staff intelligence offer.

Now what exactly would Murtha have been doing over there in that role?

[beethovenfan]

REDEPLOY MURTHA!!!!

[WalterSkinner]

Swift Boat Bump!

[Zman516]

Shoulda known it.

Typical lying Democrat phoney.

[deport]

Your buddy Dick does know that Jack Murtha enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1952 and served in Korea doesn't he. He then rose to a drill instructor and then onto OCS.

I have no use for his political views but I'd give him a tad more for his military than your bud Dick does.

[Theresawithanh]

Thank you for this info, this is rich!

[sweetiepiezer]

BTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[do the dhue]

ping

[nopardons]

bttt

[Henchster]

Jack Murtha was an unindicted co-conspirator in the ABSCAM scandal-sting almost 30 years ago.

Does anyone really think he has gotten LESS sleazy over three decades?

[Calpernia]

http://freerepublic.info/focus/f-news/1560750/posts
Stolen Valor Act of 2005

[detch]

But in a 1996 newspaper article, Fox questioned whether Murtha deserved his Purple Hearts, alleging that there was insufficient evidence of injuries and that Murtha was never confined to a hospital.

"Of course Congressman Saylor wanted to help if he could, but there was nothing in the service record to indicate the wounds were of any severity and the documents specifically indicated that next of kin was not notified in either instance," Fox told the Herald-Standard in 1996. "We were amazed that Mr. Murtha was asking for Purple Hearts for superficial lacerations," he added.

Murtha's accounts of his Vietnam War wounds may also conflict with the available U.S. Marine medical records obtained by the media.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on May 12, 2002, reported that "Marine Corps casualty records show that Murtha was injured in 'hostile' actions near Danang, Vietnam, on March 22, 1967, and May 7, 1967.

"In the first incident, his right cheek was lacerated, and in the second, he was lacerated above his left eye. Neither injury required evacuation," the Post-Gazette reported.

But an Oct. 26, 1994, article in the Herald-Standard quoted Murtha as describing two different injuries.

"I was wounded in the arm with shrapnel from a bullet that hit the motor mount of a helicopter. In the other, my knee was banged up and my arm was banged up when a helicopter was shot down from a very few feet," Murtha told the Herald-Standard.

A June 1, 1967 report in the Johnstown Tribune-Democrat quoted a letter that the newspaper indicated was sent by Murtha to his wife that same year. The letter apparently detailed yet another version of how Murtha qualified for one of his Purple Hearts. According to the Johnstown Tribune-Democrat, Murtha's injuries involved his being "struck in the ankle" by a "shot that ricocheted off the helicopter."

Murtha's War Hero Status Called Into Question?By Marc Morano and Randy Hall?CNSNews.com Staff ?January 13, 2006

[U S Army EOD]

He was not awarded any Purple Hearts while in Vietnam in 66. He did "apply" for Purple Hearts in 1968 when he was in politics.

[shield]

He sucks...and is a DISGRACE TO THE MARINES

[InvisibleChurch]

Wasn't he in the frontlines in The Battle of Abscam?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

He strikes me as not-too-bright, btw.

[PhilDragoo]

So Murtha has a history of ethical anacephalism vis-a-vis Abscam ("Put that fifty large on ice for me") and use of steroids on his personal military record in addition to being what Colonel Hunt calls ACE, a pol giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

Murtha has slandered our Marines in a manner vastly beyond that which got former Clinton Defense bimbo Sara Lister the boot in 1997.

Murtha has performed as a propaganda megaphone for terrorists who kill our soldiers daily in the most cowardly fashion.

Murtha has cost the war on terror more precious percentage points as part of the larger Democrat effort to defeat America in the theater of domestic public opinion--just as the Left did for the Vietnam War in the late Sixties and early Seventies.