Isn't that where Murtha wanted to "redeploy" our troops?
No, that's Okinawa, Japan.
Hope Andrew knows enough to stay away from the red-light district.
Isn't that where Murtha wanted to "redeploy" our troops?
Nope. Murtha wanted them to re-deploy a Middle-East Quick Reaction Force to Japan(!) (Okinawa), from which they could have redeployed to Iraq "if things went bad" by flying 5,500 miles, across the heart of China, over Iran and into Baghdad.
By flying around unfriendly countries, the distance from Okinawa to Baghdad would be greater than the distance from New Jersey to Iraq. But the repeaters in the Press Corps didn't catch that because that would require applied critical thinking skills. And whether the Japanese would like to host the Middle East QRF is was not addressed. Not by Murtha, and not by his many sycophants in the Press.