Posted on 07/21/2006 5:02:26 AM PDT by no dems
All was not rosy at Rep. John Murtha's award ceremony Thursday in Washington, D.C., where protestors gathered to protest his anti-troops, cut and run foreign policy statements.
Murtha was there to receive the 2006 Edmund S. Muskie Distinguished Public Service Award from the Center for National Policy.
Protestors carried signs that read, "Redeploy John Murtha," "John Cut-N-Run Murtha," "U.S. Soldiers National Treasure; John Murtha National Disgrace." Other signs mocked Murtha for his "We can't win" statements and "in cold blood" pre-trial judgment of eight fellow Marines.
...while Murtha received a warm welcome at the lunchtime event, a small group of protestors collected outside.
"We came out here because Congressman Jack Murtha was getting an award for distinguished public service, and we think that his service to our country in the past few years has been anything but distinguished," Kristinn Taylor, an organizer of the protest, told Cybercast News Service.
Taylor, co-leader of the District of Columbia chapter of the conservative FreeRepublic.com, criticized Murtha over "the way he's been stabbing our troops in the back and undermining morale with his anti-Iraq war stance and his over-the-top rhetoric."
"For a Vietnam veteran, he ought to know better than to do to this generation of troops in combat what his Democratic Party did to the men and women serving in Vietnam -- undermining their morale, giving aid and comfort to the enemy and telling them they can't win," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at crosswalk.com ...
Keep them on their toes! Kudos!
There's an Edmund Muskie award? Do you have to cry when they give it to you?
Photo's, please?
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Vets4Irey also has photos from this Murtha confrontation!
Hurrah!
Well Said..Kristinn
BTTT
Thanks!
Who is the little lady who keeps hiding her face in every picture? Geesh! If you're that timid or embarrassed, go home.
Patriots bump!
Just A Nobody. She is neither embarassed or timid and a more dedicated FReeper, you will not find.
I have a photo of her sneakers peeking out from under a sign, somewhere in my stack of photos...
Just A Nobody -
Freeper Extraordinaire and woman of mystery.... and definitely somebody in my book!
Cheers - Dinah
Well said, Kristnin. Thanks for saying it for all of us who couldn't be there.
Fom your about page, "I am Ronald Reagan style Republican."
I say bull crap to you. You broke RR's 13th ammendment. STF!
I can't help thinking that Karl Rove is selecting the winners of these awards. The more awards that are given to the loony-left, the more the remaining Dims will be compelled to act loony, too.
Thanks for posting this piece, out FReepers did a great job.
That's Just A Nobody behind the signs and no one loves or does more for our troops. Timid she is not. :-)
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