Murtha is assailed for daring to speak out

Centre Daily/Phil. Enquirer ^ | 8/6/06 | Editorial staff

[Coop]

John Murtha... is taking obscene criticism from the right for daring to point out that the Bush administration has given our troops an all-but-impossible job in Iraq.

The 17-term congressman had already inflamed the Swift Boat crowd last year by calling for a rapid withdrawal of U.S. forces.

The fallout reached a ridiculous low point last fall when a Republican congresswoman who'd never been within several time zones of a battlefield called Murtha, winner of two Purple Hearts, a coward on the House floor. [Coop note: Any bets as to how close any of these editors ever came to a battlefield?]

Now, incredibly, the partisan rhetoric is even more vile. Murtha is being called a traitor and a "fifth columnist" because he responded to reports of a possible massacre in Haditha, Iraq, by lamenting that Marines shot Iraqi civilians "in cold blood."

The descriptions of what happened in Haditha on Nov. 19, 2005, are among the ugliest to come out of the war. The Marines said initially that civilians were killed in crossfire with insurgents after a bomb killed a Marine. A military probe since then has amassed evidence that Marines may have deliberately shot and killed 24 civilians, including children, in a house-to-house search, and that attempts were made to cover up the incident. [Coop note: A military probe, which you're apparently so fond of, has already concluded there was no cover up. Get up to date... on a whole host of issues!]

Murtha's point was that such incidents are an inevitable result of leaving troops too long in the middle of an emerging civil war with no clear mission.

That's not the talk of a traitor... A country that can't handle that kind of debate is a country that can't handle democracy.

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[Beckwith]

I notice that nobody had the courage to sign this piece of crap. It was written by a committee of editors.

Geldings, all of 'em.

[citizensgratitude]

Send him to Japan via rocket missle.

[StarCMC]

[StarCMC]

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[Coop]

And yet, most of us Veterans oppose this sniviling opportunist. Ever notice the left fails to address that fact?

Oh yeah. I personally think it's because the media elites don't know any veterans... except for the Dem "war hero" politicians they constantly reference.

[Coop]

Coop...you must be really a masochist to read that screed...sorry, it lost me after the first line..couldn't read the rest.

Then you missed the entertaining (IMNSHO) Coop notes I inserted. Your loss! :-)

[Coop]

Tell what to Lieberman?

[Coop]

Has the editorial staff of the Enquirer ever done investigative research on Philly's huge voter turnout every year?

Why? The Democrat always comes out ahead.

[sport]

"...A country that can't handle that kind of debate is a country that can't handle democracy...."

Two points:
Point one:
1.We are not a democracy. We are a representative republic.

Point two:

Murtha was called into question for what he said. Murtha lied about, slandered, and libeled an honorable group of individuals. Individuals who have something he never had and never will have, honesty, deceny, and principles.

In Murtha's defense, he could not help saying what he said. Murtha is a Democrat. A Democrat can no more tell the truth than east can be west. Each time a Democrat opens their mouth lies, slander, libel, and obscenity spews uncontrolably out.

[Marine_Uncle]

"...he is just a loudmouth with no honor and no longer deserves the title, Marine."
Case closed.
Semper Fi

[dfwgator]

Oh so the liberals definition of "debate" is that you must agree with everything a liberal says.

[Bob J]

What they're complianing about being done to Murtha is exactly what the left did to Lieberman. Of course, they won't mention the irony.

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