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To: impeachedrapist

Excellent video and I loved the site...

They are missing his most important quote, though, the one that proves beyond any doubt that he WANTS us to lose. He stated in a speech to Moveon that he doesn't even want us to withdraw in such a way that there is the APPEARANCE we've won. He pretends he doesn't think we can win... this statement proves he knows we can win but wants us to be crushed in defeat.

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http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110007779

BY JAMES TARANTO
Friday, January 6, 2006 3:40 p.m. EST

Nothing to Fear but Victory Itself

Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, who became a media darling in November by calling for immediate withdrawal from Iraq (though he voted against his own proposal when Republicans brought it to the House floor), elaborated on his views last night, reports National Review's Byron York:

Representative John Murtha, the Pennsylvania Democrat who has come to national prominence since his call for a quick withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, said Thursday night that he worries about "a slow withdrawal which makes it look like there's a victory."

Appearing at a town meeting in Arlington, Virginia, with fellow Democratic Rep. James Moran, Murtha said, "A year ago, I said we can't win this militarily, and I got all kinds of criticism." Now, Murtha told the strongly antiwar audience, "I worry about a slow withdrawal which makes it look like there's a victory when I think it should be a redeployment as quickly as possible and let the Iraqis handle the whole thing."

Does anyone still want to say it is unfair to characterize Murtha as rooting for American defeat? The "town meeting," by the way, was sponsored by the far-left outfit MoveOn.org, "which said that 'Congressman Moran has extended a special invitation to MoveOn members in his district and nearby.' " Moran is the Democrats' answer to Pat Buchanan, as we noted in 2003:

A Democratic congressman who opposes the liberation of Iraq is blaming the Jews for threatening Saddam Hussein's hold on power. "If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq we would not be doing this," the Connection newspapers of northern Virginia quoted Rep. Jim Moran as saying last week. "The leaders of the Jewish community are influential enough that they could change the direction of where this is going and I think they should."

The good news is that the "antiwar" movement is not serious. If it were, it would not have to rely on fringe figures like Murtha, Moran and Cindy Sheehan.


11 posted on 10/30/2006 4:30:21 PM PST by Tamzee (If you got 75 or 80% of what you were asking for... you take it & fight for the rest later - Reagan)
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To: Tamzee; Just A Nobody; smoothsailing
"I worry about a slow withdrawal which makes it look like there's a victory when I think it should be a redeployment as quickly as possible and let the Iraqis handle the whole thing."

THANK YOU and BLESS YOUR HEART!! I knew I remembered hearing this quote and at the time was so flabbergasted, that I did not catch who said it. I suspected it was murtha but could not find it doing a search.

Next to his "in cold blood" statement, this is the most damning thing to come out of this traitor's mouth, and that's saying a lot.

Murtha doesn't just want to cut and run, he wants our troops to lose!


12 posted on 10/30/2006 4:55:35 PM PST by Sisku Hanne (*Support DIANA IREY for US Congress!* Send "Cut-n-Run" Murtha packing: HIT THE ROAD, JACK!)
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