20 Reasons Not to Vote for John Murtha... from BootMurtha.com

BootMurtha.com ^ | 9/14/2006 | IPWGOP

[IPWGOP]

20 Reasons not to vote for John Murtha

 

1. Murtha wants to Cut and Run from Iraq. This has already proven deadly for America:

Osama bin Laden cites the Cut and Run from Somalia (1993) as the main reason he believed al Qaida could strike the U.S. with impunity. Cut and Run is wrong now in Iraq for the same reasons. read

  2. Murtha demoralizes our troops during war with his public statements: read, read

  3. Murtha aligns with & accepts awards from radical, anti-military, soldiers-harassing organizations:

Code Pink/Murtha photo-op, accepting their award: here 
MFSO/Murtha photo-op, in Washington, D.C.: here

  4. Murtha stonewalls constituents who are Iraq War veterans: read, read

  5. Murtha called Marines 'cold blooded" murderers prior to completion of an investigation:

read, read, read

  6. Murtha says he would not join the military today, nor should others: read

  7. Murtha voted for re-instituting the draft: read

  8. Murtha says it "doesn't matter" if PA's overseas service members vote, declines to help.

  9. Murtha lies about military recruitment not meeting its goals: read

10. Murtha refuses to sponsor the Stolen Valor Bill, which exposes phony war heroes: read,  read,  read

11. Murtha himself questions his military medals, refuses to release his military records: read

12. Murtha repeatedly slips Congressional pay and honoraria limit increases into bills: read

Since 1995, John Murtha has voted 11 straight times in favor of raising his own pay.

13. Murtha voted against securing our borders: vote results

14. Murtha voted against protecting the Pledge of Allegiance: read

15. Murtha voted for stem cell research, which destroys live human embryos: read

16. Murtha gutted and weakened our military as Chairman of the Defense Committee: read

17. Murtha loots the Defense Budget with non-military spending earmarks, then complains
      there's not enough money for body armor for our troops: read

18. Murtha's blatant cronyism shovels millions of Defense $ to his brother, friends, colleagues:

$20 million to his brother in 2004 [read]
Millions to Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's nephew [read]
Millions to PA Rep. Paul Kanjorski's kids [read]

19. Murtha is the top beneficiary of defense campaign donations: read

20. Murtha pushed for premature 2003 deployment of the Stryker vehicle to Iraq without proper testing, resulting in the needless deaths of soldiers: read,  read

 

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[IPWGOP]

Murtha ping...

[Just A Nobody]

20 reasons out of 100's ping!

[RobFromGa]

#21. Our troops have spoken:

“Ma’am, you don’t need to thank us. You just go beat him for us.”

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[Just A Nobody]

Most important!

[jazusamo]

20 very good reasons to vote for Diana Irey.

http://www.irey.com/

[freema]

Here's just one of twenty reasons:

http://www.bootmurtha.com/MurthaUpdates/JULY2006/07-27-06.htm#guttedmilitary

[KingofQue]

We need the Swift Boat Vets to find Murtha's former unit members to tell the real tale of his exploits in Viet Nam. We need to rid ourselves of this ABSCAM unindicted co-conspirator.

[omega4179]

wait did not MURTHA tell Clinton to cut and run in somalia? even boot murtha isnt booting hard enough.