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Rep. Murtha blasts GOP for name-calling (The poor baby)
Houston Chronicle ^
| 10-14-06
| Staff
Posted on 10/14/2006 9:30:29 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Oct. 14, 2006, 10:55PM
Rep. Murtha blasts GOP for name-calling
© 2006 The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Rep. John Murtha, a decorated Marine veteran who favors withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, wrote an essay for Sunday's Washington Post blasting Republicans for referring to him and other Iraq war opponents as "Defeatocrats."
In his opinion piece, first published on the Post's Web site Saturday night, Murtha, D-Pa., said Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and others in the White House have called Iraq war opponents appeasers and pessimists and labeled Democrats the "cut and run" party.
"It's all baseless name-calling, and it's all wrong," Murtha wrote. "Unless, of course, being a Defeatocrat means taking a good hard look at the administration's Iraq policy and determining that it's a failure.
"In that case, count me in. Because Democrats recognize that we're headed for a far greater disaster in Iraq if we don't change course _ and soon. This is not defeatism. This is realism."
Murtha, a military hawk and close confidant of top military officials, surprised Washington last year when he called for pulling all troops out of Iraq within months.
At a GOP fundraiser in Milwaukee last month, Cheney accused Murtha of advocating a policy of retreat in the war against terrorism.
In the Post essay, Murtha wrote: "Democrats are fighting a war on two fronts: One is combating the spin and intimidation that defines this administration. The other is fighting to change course, to do things better, to substitute smart, disciplined strategy for dogma and denial in Iraq.
"That's not defeatism. That's our duty," Murtha wrote.
This article is:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/4260012.html
TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cutandrun; cutandrunparty; defeatocrats; murtha
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To: Just A Nobody; jazusamo; W04Man; freema
Murtha Cry-Baby Ping!
(Justa, I'm logging off)
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posted on
10/14/2006 9:32:48 PM PDT
by
smoothsailing
(Support The Troops-Support The Mission--Please Visit http://www.irey.com--&--YouDontKnowJack.org)
To: smoothsailing
"Murtha, a military hawk........"
Uhuh, sure.
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posted on
10/14/2006 9:34:58 PM PDT
by
headstamp
(Nothing lasts forever, Unless it does.)
To: smoothsailing
Hm, does this sound like a leader of a party that is about to win a huge victory?
I don't think so.
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posted on
10/14/2006 9:38:02 PM PDT
by
Dems_R_Losers
(VOTE as if your life depends on it -- because it does!!!)
To: smoothsailing
"Democrats are fighting a war on two fronts: One is combating the spin and intimidation that defines this administration. The other is fighting to change course,...Too bad neither of their "two fronts" is against the terrorists.
To: smoothsailing
Hey Murtha! You're a defeatocrat, defeatocrat, defeatocrat, defeatocrat. If the shoe fits, wear it....I mean, stick it.
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posted on
10/14/2006 9:40:52 PM PDT
by
Chena
("I'm not young enough to know everything." (Oscar Wilde))
To: headstamp
Murtha is just a Democrat talking points boob. He's just an old wooden mannequin for the Democrat Party. Murtha can't speak without Edgar Bergen standing by his side.
****
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posted on
10/14/2006 9:41:19 PM PDT
by
beyond the sea
( Either hold your nose on Election Day ......... or grab your ankles for the next few years)
To: smoothsailing
Sounds like the pot
calling the pristine white bone china
black.
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posted on
10/14/2006 9:42:35 PM PDT
by
Quix
(LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
To: smoothsailing
i wish they would quit referring to Murtha as a military hawk...he has been advocating cutting and running for DECADES...
Also...him complaining about name-calling is a joke...they have been calling President Bush a liar and a failure for 6 years...and he isn't whining and crying...good grief.
THIS should seal his defeat...what kind of war HERO, congressman CRYS to the the MSM because his little feelings are hurt??
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posted on
10/14/2006 9:42:44 PM PDT
by
Txsleuth
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To: hinckley buzzard
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posted on
10/14/2006 9:43:58 PM PDT
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Txsleuth
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To: Txsleuth
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10/14/2006 9:45:26 PM PDT
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Txsleuth
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To: Txsleuth
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posted on
10/14/2006 9:45:57 PM PDT
by
onyx
(We have two political parties: the American Party and the Anti-American Party.)
To: smoothsailing
Rep. John Murtha, a decorated Marine veteran...He was once blessed to wear the uniform now he disgraces everything of the proud military every time he opens his piehole; just like John F'n Kerry and others.
To: smoothsailing
Two words: CRY. BABY.
Maybe he ought to ask the Marines he accused of committing cold blooded murder if they have an opinion on all this name calling?
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posted on
10/14/2006 9:48:10 PM PDT
by
bpjam
(Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Qaida - The Religion of Peace)
To: smoothsailing; Just A Nobody; W04Man; xpertskir; freema; bert; chcknhawk; Old Sarge; ...
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posted on
10/14/2006 9:48:13 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(DIANA IREY for Congress, PA 12th District: Retire murtha.)
To: smoothsailing
So, the 'Murtha Faker' is a cry-baby.
What else is new?
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posted on
10/14/2006 9:48:47 PM PDT
by
punster
To: smoothsailing
Murtha is an embarrassment. I've never seen him as outraged at Saddam or UBL the way he is at Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld. He's a miserable sack of sh*t and I haven't an ounce of respect for him, military service or not. How can I respect someone who uses the war as a vehicle for his own self-aggrandizement?
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posted on
10/14/2006 9:49:19 PM PDT
by
Darkwolf377
(Republican, atheist, pro-life)
To: Txsleuth
"...what kind of war HERO, congressman CRYS to the the MSM because his little feelings are hurt??"
We all remember how well it worked for Edmund Muskie...
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posted on
10/14/2006 9:49:55 PM PDT
by
decal
(Building a wall on the border is like treating lung cancer with cough syrup.)
To: smoothsailing
Rep. Murtha blasts GOP for name-calling The big treasonous blowhard.
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posted on
10/14/2006 9:50:30 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
(A pirate's life for me.)
To: jazusamo
He's despicable.
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posted on
10/14/2006 9:50:40 PM PDT
by
onyx
(We have two political parties: the American Party and the Anti-American Party.)
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