Posted on 06/30/2006 8:25:26 AM PDT by Coop
The sound you hear is the sound of election-conscious Democrats tiptoeing away from Rep. John Murtha. As they once did with Cindy Sheehan, whose own Democratic-orchestrated popularity peaked when she demanded U.S. troops leave "occupied New Orleans," Democrats perhaps are realizing their mistake in pumping Mr. Murtha's antiwar views all over the televisions of ordinary Americans who now associate him with their party.
According to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, at a panel discussion in Miami on Saturday, Mr. Murtha said that the "American presence in Iraq is more dangerous to world peace than nuclear threats from North Korea or Iran." ...that's a pretty spectacular claim to make, not to mention spectacularly silly. No offense to the terrorists in Iraq, but one well-placed nuclear warhead in Tel Aviv or Tokyo and suddenly their three-year guerrilla war against U.S. troops and innocent Iraqis looks amateur in comparison. Yet such is the fate of media-made politicians who must ever up the ante of their rhetoric...
This has led not a few to wonder if Mr. Murtha's antiwar extremism isn't entirely selfless. Last week, we mentioned his involvement in the Abscam scandal 25 years ago, when [Murtha] escaped prosecution while still being identified as an "unindicted co-conspirator." That apparently led to the House Ethics Committee's special counsel in the case, E. Barrett Prettyman, resigning in protest...
...[o]nce a Los Angeles Times story about Mr. Murtha's appropriations panel's deliverance of $20 million to his brother's defense firm began to gain traction last year, suddenly Mr. Murtha, who voted for the Iraq war, reinvented himself as an antiwar partisan.
We wonder if Democrats, however, especially their public-relations people, aren't regretting having pushed television networks to air that extremism for all Americans to hear.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Well, duh! Murtha IS a Democrat, so of course he's associated with the Dim Party. Sheesh!
This is entirely possible.
I remember Murtha making the speech about the wounded at Walter Reed and saying we had to get out of Iraq, I was beside myself. I'd been lurking here for a little less than a year and was really kind of computer illiterate. Got some training from my grown kids and took the plunge and signed up in Dec. So in a way it was him that got me on FR and I can at least thank him for that. When he's unseated I hope I will have had something to do with it.
We appreciate your service very much. I'm sorry you had to finish a deployment listening to that trash.
Murtha even looks like tummy ache when he's in native attire:
http://www.theodoresworld.net/pcfreezone/JihadJackMurtha.jpg
I think those who trace his sudden virulent anti-war stance to last year when an investigation into corruption regarding his brother began to heat up are right. That, plus I wouldn't be surprised if was going through early-stage dementia personality changes.
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Dementia is a very good defense for the accusations of corruption against Murtha.
I don't buy one freeaken ounce of it.
Last few hours of fundraising for this quarter!
Thanks, cheers.
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I was trying to think of where I was getting that "tip-toe" song in my head from when I saw the title of this thread...that pic you posted jogged my memory...from a number of years ago when I got up early to watch Looney Tunes. "Tip toe...through the tulips...avec moi!"
Were you thinking of the same thing or is this just a coincidence? :-)
Made another contribution before I headed north today. ;*)
Yes, he advocated for pull out then, also.
Next thing you know, he'll be advocating for dispersements of condoms to our troops
to put them over the end of the rifles.
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