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Murtha’s friendly fire mistakes enemy within
Delaware County Times ^ | 6/27/06 | Editorial

Posted on 06/27/2006 4:49:36 AM PDT by Coop

There he goes again. U.S. Rep. Jack Murtha..."American presence in Iraq is more dangerous to world peace than nuclear threats from North Korea and Iran" ... "We want as many Americans out of (Iraq) as possible" because "we have become the enemy."

... his ... comments deserve clarification insofar as they can easily be construed to be, if not anti-American, a comfort to this country’s enemies.

...there is evidence progress is being made. On the flip side, there is not a lot in the way of evidence that America’s soldiers have "become the enemy" of anyone in Iraq other than those people who were its enemies there in the first place...

If there were any truth to Murtha’s assertion about the U.S. being the enemy, it would have been invited to leave Iraq by its newly elected government months, if not years, ago... Iraqi citizens and their elected leaders know it is the American military presence that gives them their best chance of stabilizing their country...

Iran is run by a religious oligarchy that supports terrorist networks all over the world. North Korea is a failing country but burgeoning criminal enterprise run by a malignant megalomaniac. That both these countries are using their nuclear programs to blackmail the West into surrendering to their demands for recognition and foreign aid is the threat facing the world today. These are not civilized countries. They are serious threats to world peace...

That Jack Murtha would suggest somehow the U.S. is the problem is to have a view of the world more common to the faculties of certain universities than mainstream America.

... Jack Murtha isn’t adding to [the debate] by aping old Pogo comic strips.

Americans have met the enemy, Mr. Murtha, and he isn’t them.

(Excerpt) Read more at zwire.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abscam; cutandrun; irey; murtha; murthawatch; redeploy
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is again pushing the envelope with his latest comments on the issue.

I think that wrinkled envelope went over the edge a couple of months ago.

1 posted on 06/27/2006 4:49:38 AM PDT by Coop
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To: 4yearlurker; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; acsrp38; agincourt1415; A message; angcat; armydawg1; ...
Excellent editorial. Guaranteed to get you going this morning with no caffeine.

Please FReepmail me if you'd like on or off the Irey/Murtha ping list.

And please help Diana Irey redeploy and retire the dishonorable EX-Marine John Murtha.

2 posted on 06/27/2006 4:51:25 AM PDT by Coop (No, there are no @!%$&#*! polls on Irey vs. Murtha!)
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To: Owl_Eagle; brityank; Physicist; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; GOPJ; abner; baseballmom; Mo1; Ciexyz; ...

ping


3 posted on 06/27/2006 4:57:41 AM PDT by Tribune7
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To: Coop
murtha= ""we have become the enemy."

Well, now here he speaks truth - were he looking in a mirror...seeing, first, himself and over his shoudler, sKerry, Keenedee, Reeed, chemPeelosi, et al.

4 posted on 06/27/2006 4:59:42 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (LINCOLN: "...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time>")
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To: Coop

We need to introduce the term "Murtha" as an epithet to mean the same as Quisling or Benedict Arnold.


5 posted on 06/27/2006 5:00:24 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (The Left created, embraces and feeds "The Culture of Hate." Make it part of the political lexicon!)
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To: Coop

BTTT


6 posted on 06/27/2006 5:03:57 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: Coop

See my tagline.


7 posted on 06/27/2006 5:10:30 AM PDT by Jemian (PAM of JT ~~ Thanks for putting our boys in harms way, Rep. Murtha, you treasonous jack@ss!)
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To: Coop

Bump. Great piece. Hope it's read on the other side of the state.


8 posted on 06/27/2006 5:10:39 AM PDT by RedRover
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To: Coop
"We want as many Americans out of (Iraq) as possible" because "we have become the enemy."

The Republicans should hang this around the Democrats' neck: it confirms that to the Democrats, America is the enemy.

9 posted on 06/27/2006 5:11:57 AM PDT by T Ruth (Islam shall be defeated.)
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To: RedRover

None dare call it treason. Well, I will.


10 posted on 06/27/2006 5:14:14 AM PDT by at bay ("We actually did an evil....." Eric Scmidt, CEO Google)
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To: Coop
murtha has a real problem sensing reality. of course for a demonrat this is normal. should murtha and the ny times team up, there will be a whole lot of treasonous activity going on up in the northeast and DC. of course this is another chapter in the story of traitors.
11 posted on 06/27/2006 5:14:40 AM PDT by From One - Many (Trust the Old Media At Your Own Risk)
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To: Coop

It looks like John Murtha is "playing" to his base of leftist socialist revolutionaries. I am not sure whether the word sedition or traitor applies to this unAmerican moron. His statements are beyond outrageous; maybe he is the source of the leaks to the MSM.


12 posted on 06/27/2006 5:15:15 AM PDT by olezip
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To: olezip
my opinion is; he is helping to hide the 'leak' traitor
excuse me for jumping in with that opinion.
13 posted on 06/27/2006 5:20:56 AM PDT by From One - Many (Trust the Old Media At Your Own Risk)
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To: From One - Many; olezip

Take this for what it's worth. I saw on a blog today somewhere that Murtha was one of three people (Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton were the others) the NY Times spoke with before going forward with its financial story. The Times reporter or editor claimed that one of those "sources" did not ask the Times not to print the story.


14 posted on 06/27/2006 5:23:48 AM PDT by Coop (No, there are no @!%$&#*! polls on Irey vs. Murtha!)
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To: Coop

Once someone has demonstrated that he or she is not trustworthy or loyal, then they become suspects of just about anything bad that occurs. In my eyes Murtha is a criminal and dishonorable. He should voluntarily retire in shame, but like the other leftist socialist revolutionaries Murtha has no shame.


15 posted on 06/27/2006 5:36:30 AM PDT by olezip
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To: olezip
He should voluntarily retire in shame

But he won't, nor will his Dem leaders ask him to. So it's up to us, via Commissioner Irey, to retire and redeploy him.

16 posted on 06/27/2006 5:38:11 AM PDT by Coop (No, there are no @!%$&#*! polls on Irey vs. Murtha!)
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To: Coop

Amen to that!


17 posted on 06/27/2006 5:39:40 AM PDT by olezip
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To: Coop
Iraqi citizens and their elected leaders know it is the American military presence that gives them their best chance of stabilizing their country...

Eat that you anti-American PIG. Ugh!!

18 posted on 06/27/2006 5:42:07 AM PDT by StarCMC ("The word of muslims will never, ever override what our U.S. Marines say." - TheCrusader)
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To: at bay; Coop

EXACTLY. What the heck is wrong with the Congresscritters on the right side of the aisle that NOT ONE is standing up and telling him to shut his piehole? It had better be strategery -- letting him hang himself or something -- but from here it sure looks like cowardice. GRRRRR.


19 posted on 06/27/2006 5:44:21 AM PDT by StarCMC ("The word of muslims will never, ever override what our U.S. Marines say." - TheCrusader)
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To: StarCMC

I wish I knew.


20 posted on 06/27/2006 5:45:32 AM PDT by Coop (No, there are no @!%$&#*! polls on Irey vs. Murtha!)
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