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Murtha clarifies remarks on Iraq ‘surge’(Pelosi Spanked My Butt-Whaaaa!!)
The Hill ^ | November 30, 2007 | Mike Soraghan

Posted on 11/30/2007 11:32:57 AM PST by vietvet67

House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee Chairman John Murtha (D-Pa.) has taken the unusual step of publicly clarifying his remark that the “surge is working” in Iraq.

Murtha, a former Marine and top adviser to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on military matters, had often said previously that the surge is not working.

The clarification came after House Republicans circulated an article about Murtha’s comments written in Friday’s edition of his home-state Pittsburgh Post-Gazette after a teleconference from Murtha’s Johnstown, Pa., office. In addition to saying that the surge is working, the Post-Gazette reported, Murtha called the Iraqi government “dysfunctional” and said, “The thing that has to happen is the Iraqis have to do this themselves. We can't win it for them.”

That put him in line with the current position of the House Democratic leadership that the extra troops have done a good job of reducing violence, but the Iraqi government has been squandering the opportunity.

This morning Murtha issued the following statement through his spokesman:

“The military surge has created a window of opportunity for the Iraqi government. Unfortunately, the sacrifice of our troops has not been met by the Iraqi government and they have failed to capitalize on the political and diplomatic steps that the surge was designed to provide.

“The fact remains that the war in Iraq cannot be won militarily, and that we must begin an orderly redeployment of U.S. forces from Iraq as soon as practicable.

“The House of Representatives has passed a $50 billion funding bill that provides the president, our troops and our nation with a responsible plan for bringing our troops home. The president should heed the advice of the American people and allow this funding bill to become law.”


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To: AnAmericanMother

“My daddy would say that the Dem leadership has photographs of Murtha in a house of ill-repute . . .”

That would require nutz, which Murtha lacks.


41 posted on 11/30/2007 12:21:09 PM PST by Hacklehead (Proud graduate of the Klingon School of Interpersonal Communication.)
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To: AnAmericanMother

“My daddy would say that the Dem leadership has photographs of Murtha in a house of ill-repute . . .”

Congress?


42 posted on 11/30/2007 12:21:10 PM PST by sbMKE
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To: vietvet67

If Repubs had any stones, Murtha’s “surge is working” comment would be made into a commercial.


43 posted on 11/30/2007 12:24:00 PM PST by Hacklehead (Proud graduate of the Klingon School of Interpersonal Communication.)
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To: Hacklehead
If Repubs had any stones

Well, there you go.

44 posted on 11/30/2007 12:31:14 PM PST by Jeff Chandler ("Liberals want to save the world for the children they aren't having." -Mark Steyn)
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To: vietvet67
Translation: The surge is working, but the surge can’t be working because I said we can’t win this war, therefore it isn’t working and we need to bring the troops home.
45 posted on 11/30/2007 12:41:55 PM PST by colorado tanker (I'm unmoderated - just ask Bill O'Reilly)
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To: vietvet67

He’s in a quagmire, time for him to re-deploy to Okinawa.


46 posted on 11/30/2007 12:43:25 PM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: vietvet67
Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

47 posted on 11/30/2007 12:44:40 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: vietvet67

“What I meant to say was the surge is working, while it is not working.” Doublethink = the ability to hold 2 completely different opinions on a subject and believe both of them to be true.


48 posted on 11/30/2007 12:47:58 PM PST by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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To: vietvet67

In a moment of distraction he spoke the truth. Bad democrat. He will have to be reeducated.


49 posted on 11/30/2007 12:49:31 PM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: vietvet67

The Iraqi government is considered dysfunctional because it is not set up to receive wholsale graft like he does.

Stroke....stroke...


50 posted on 11/30/2007 12:51:57 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Moveon is not us...... Moveon is the enemy)
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To: Past Your Eyes

Lee Harvey Oswald.

Clayton Longtree.


51 posted on 11/30/2007 1:06:14 PM PST by Cheburashka (DUmmieland = Opus Dopium. In all senses of the word dope.)
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To: sbMKE

Good one! < LOL >


52 posted on 11/30/2007 1:17:49 PM PST by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: Hacklehead

Also a good one! < g >


53 posted on 11/30/2007 1:18:10 PM PST by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: vietvet67

Murtha the arsehole, once again proving he is too ignorant, senile, corrupt and flaky to serve in ANY position of public trust or responsibility...


54 posted on 11/30/2007 2:13:35 PM PST by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: Past Your Eyes
No, they got it right. He is no longer a Marine. Most of us wish he never was. He is the only person I know of that the phrase (Once a Marine, always a Marine, does NOT apply to. Past Your Eyes - USMC 1970-1972.

Guess we need to invent a new term for Murtha: MINO (Marine In Name Only)

55 posted on 11/30/2007 2:57:25 PM PST by tophat9000 (You need to have standards to fail and be a hypocrite, Dem's therefor are never hypocrites)
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To: LRS

“What we have here is a failure to communicate!”


56 posted on 11/30/2007 9:09:49 PM PST by bt_dooftlook (Democrats - the "No Child/Left/Behind" Party)
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To: AnAmericanMother

Well of course (and the Senate is just across the hall from it;)


57 posted on 11/30/2007 9:11:13 PM PST by bt_dooftlook (Democrats - the "No Child/Left/Behind" Party)
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Murtha, do not forsake the Troops.

We have this won.

We do not need you standing in the way.


58 posted on 11/30/2007 9:20:27 PM PST by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: vietvet67
“The House of Representatives has passed a $50 billion funding bill that provides the president, our troops and our nation with a responsible plan for bringing our troops home

so far as I can tell, their bill has no plan at all for bringing our troops home, responsibly or otherwise.

Their bill simply says the president has to start bringing the troops home. The PRESIDENT has to put together the plan under their bill, they simply make the order of surrender.

59 posted on 11/30/2007 9:44:53 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT (The Swiss Ninja.)
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