Posted on 02/15/2007 7:09:40 PM PST by mdittmar
Fascinating - Murtha had it all figured out: Too bad nobody asked him!! /sarc
Voices from the past!
Bush did this, didn't he? He had Murtha hypnotized < /Moonbat >
Why does he use John and Jack,what's that about?
I wish we only heard his voice from the past, this turkey is putting our country in peril, he's dangerous.
Hi, Justa and thanks for the ping. :-)
Other than Jack being a nickname for John, I don't know what it could be. I've known two guys over the years who's given names were John but went by Jack.
"I'm a little more nervous this time because of the threat of chemical and biological weapons and because there will possibly be fighting in the streets," Murtha said.
"To put it bluntly, it was handled badly," Murtha said of the current situation. "We should have had the allies lined up first before we pursued this. But our troops are there; it's hard to stop the momentum."
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These words were spoken the day before the interview you posted. Mr. Hawk was saying the war was handled badly the day it began!
John/Jack??? I heard he preferred Jack, therefore I only refer to him as john...or johnny boy. johnny al Murthawi, to be exact.
Yes he is!!! On both counts!
You are welcome Jaz! Good to see you! ;*)
Maybe he switched to Jack to avoid being flushed like the 2004 Johns. LOL!
Well I should have thought of that.Jack Kennedy/John Kennedy,thanks.
I'd forgotten about Kennedy. lol
Rep. John Murtha Urged Somalia Pullout in '93
After terrorists attacked U.S. troops in Mogadishu, Somalia 14 years ago, anti-Iraq war Democrat, Rep. John Murtha urged then-President Clinton to begin a complete pullout of U.S. troops from the region.
Clinton took the advice and ordered the withdrawal - a decision that Osama bin Laden would later credit with emboldening his terrorist fighters and encouraging him to mount further attacks against the U.S.
"Our welcome has been worn out," Rep Murtha told NBC's "Today" show in Sept. 1993, a month after 4 U.S. Military Police had been killed in Somalia by a remote-detonated land mine.
The Pennsylvania Democrat announced that President Clinton had been "listening to our suggestions. And I think you'll see him move those troops out very quickly."
Two weeks later, after 18 U.S. Rangers were killed in the battle of Mogadishu, Murtha visited U.S. forces in Somalia. Upon his return he proclaimed to the world that the Mogadishu defeat had a devastating impact on the Rangers' morale. "They're subdued compared to normal morale of elite forces," Murtha said. "Obviously, it was a very difficult battle. A lot of Somalis were killed, but it was a brutal battle."
Murtha said the U.S. had to no choice but to pull out now, explaining, "There's no military solution. Some of them will tell you [that] to get [warlord Mohamed Farrah] Aidid is the solution. I don't agree with that."
The comments were eerily similar to Murtha's assessment of U.S involvement in Iraq last week, when he declared, "the U.S. cannot accomplish anything further militarily. It is time to bring [the troops] home."
Taking Murtha's advice back then, however, turned out to have deadly consequences for U.S. security.
In a 1998 interview with ABC's John Miller, Osama bin Laden said that America's withdrawal from Somalia had emboldened his burgeoning al Qaida force and encouraged him to plan new attacks.
"Our people realize[d] more than before that the American soldier is a paper tiger that run[s] in defeat after a few blows," the terror chief recalled. "America forgot all about the hoopla and media propaganda and left dragging their corpses and their shameful defeat."
Ping
I don't know how else to put it. The ex-Marine is a total *sshole.
It's not the American soldier that's the paper tiger, it's spineless politicians that are the paper tigers and murtha is the cowardly leader of them.
What a piece of excrement he is....PAPER TIGER? He's a paper pussy cat of the highest order....I'm PISSED!
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