What would the swift boat veterans have to do with Murtha? Murtha was not on a swift boat.
"What would the swift boat veterans have to do with Murtha? Murtha was not on a swift boat."
Murtha himself brought up the lament that he was "being swift-boated by some Democrats" a couple of days ago. What a hoot!!!
Sure glad to have a few laughs this side of election day.
Seems that Murtha has a Kerryesque disease:
Murtha's War Hero Status Called Into Question
By Marc Morano and Randy Hall
CNSNews.com Staff January 13, 2006
[LINK to entire article]
[Excerpt]
Murtha is a retired marine and was the first Vietnam combat veteran elected to Congress. Since 1967, there have been at least three different accounts of the injuries that purportedly earned Murtha his Purple Hearts. Those accounts also appear to conflict with the limited military records that are available, and Murtha has thus far refused to release his own military records.
World War II Navy veteran Harry M. Fox, previously indicated that Murtha in 1968 personally asked Fox's boss, then-U.S. Rep. John Saylor (R-Pa.), for assistance in obtaining the Purple Hearts, but was turned down because Saylor's office determined that Murtha lacked sufficient evidence of wounds....
"We were amazed that Mr. Murtha was asking for Purple Hearts for superficial lacerations," he [Fox] added...