Posted on 08/09/2006 4:06:54 PM PDT by 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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I love how the left can craft almost any excuse to protect their own except crazy McKinney. Crazy just was too honest about what she really felt. I wish more liberals were, they'd lose every time.
Atta boy, Murtha. Mohammed Atta, that is.
coop-where do I get one of those shirts?
See post #55. :-)
An American Newspaper man says to the Soviet Newspaper man "I can say anything bad I want to about My President, can you say the same thing?"
The Soviet's reply was "Of course I can, I'm always writing Bad things about your president, in fact I get paid to do so"
2nd, and to the point, Murtha is a representative that many hold is abetting the enemy in a time of war. That also is an important discussion to hold that our very Republic could depend on. Trying to shout that discussion down or short circuit it with these types of comments and editorials represents the very thing they so decry.
Thank you for your support! Mrs. Irey has received contributions from all 50 states and from our troops in Iraq! That speaks volumes, IMO, regardless of this stupid article.
Anyone wishing to be added to the IREY/Murtha ping list let me know!
LOLOL!!!
Tell it to Lieberman.
Bump!
We need to repeat that often. The commies, ever present in front of the White House, are always chanting "this is what democracy looks like". I try countering with that's why we have a constitutional republic! They don't get it.
It's a free country. Everyone has the right to speak out.....including the Republicans blasting this idiot.
Wrong! Back to re-education camp for you!
Has the editorial staff of the Enquirer ever done investigative research on Philly's huge voter turnout every year?
Many, if not most, of those leaders have been at this since the late 60's to early 70's. They have made quite a career and fortune out of destroying our country.
They have trained armies to attack all that our country stands for, from capitalism to religion. They are disgusting.
They are loosing the media war IMHO, but they still, in very large ways, own education and we need to continue to make enroiads in turning that around.
To the editors: The U.S. is not a democracy...
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