Posted on 03/20/2009 9:14:28 AM PDT by jazusamo
Honored with Public Service Award, bloggers erupt in outrage
The U.S. Navy awarded U.S. Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., its Distinguished Public Service Award, triggering an Internet campaign to have Navy Secretary Donald C. Winter withdraw it.
Murtha, who publicly accused U.S. Marines of cold-blooded murder in a firefight in Haditha, Iraq, and was caught on camera in the Abscam scandal appearing to negotiate a bribe, was honored by the Navy for his "selfless devotion to the Nation's Sailors and Marines."
The award credits him with making sure the military services "were provided the resources necessary to effectively conduct the Global War on Terrorism."
"His courageous leadership, vision, and loyalty to the men and women of the Department of the Navy greatly contributed to their quality of life and helped create the most modern and highly trained fighting force in history," the honor said.
It continued, "As Chairman of Subcommittee on Defense of the House Appropriations Committee, Congressman Murtha's tireless advocacy helped maintain the Navy and Marine Corps team at the highest levels of combat readiness to meet the challenges of the 21st century."
An online petition that appeared almost immediately already has collected more than 11,500 signatures.
It was set up by Gabe Ledeen of VetsForFreedom.org.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
Methinks some Democrat toady in the Naval Dept. is behind this. Either that, or somebody's been smokin crack!
See my post #23, I could be wrong but don't think so.
Everyone would shout “Eureka!” — but it would be directed at Murtha whether he went swimmin’ or not.
You are more than welcome! Thank you for alerting us to this disgraceful act.
Call Sen. Demint, and some of the other patriotic folks on the Hill. Switchboard 202-225-3121
So it was payoff for past ‘support’ of the defense industry?
Heh, I can understand what you’re feeling. My hubby was Googling himself in preparation for his new career, and saw info about the two patents he has, but there were at least 6 other mentions, because of the anti-human Global Warming Petition which he signed, along with 30,000 other scientists. He’s a PhD Statistician. There have been several articles in the past week which are disdainful of those who signed the petition, saying they must have been duped or something. Um. No. He and the others just don’t believe the AGW hype from the climate calamity crowd.
That’s what I believe.
There is also the fact that Winter authorized somewhere around 70 NCIS agents to investigate the Haditha Marine incident and Murtha was shooting his mouth off about them being cold blooded killers quite awhile before that investigation was even completed. Murtha was slandering them in May and they weren’t charged until December.
Murtha tried to say he got that info from Marine Corps Commandant General Hagee but it was proven Murtha didn’t meet with Gen. Hagee until a week after he shot his mouth off, then he said he got it from officials in DOD. Many of ue believe he could have gotten it from Winter tho I doubt we’ll ever know where he got it.
Boss Tweed sure knows how to keep his minions in line.
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WOW! The signatures are really coming in, that’s great.
Thanks for posting that, I hadn’t checked it in several hours.
Murtha is demented. Like Eleanor Roosevelt, “Those nasty butchers!”
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Have you seen this?
No,...what ship do they want?
fyi
where you been, Ernest! LOL
we been ripping the Sec. of Navy for days...in fact I posted a thread from the Sec. of Navy’s office where he gave his “cya” speech right after giving Murhta a medal!
My signature made it - 22838 Signatures Total.
byyy
OK...I was over doing stuff on the Teleprompter threads...and all of the AIG mess....sorry!
I was J/K you, Ernest. LOL
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