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Navy to name warship for Murtha despite protests
Associated Press ^ | March 1, 2011 | ANDREW MIGA

Posted on 03/01/2011 12:00:18 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Navy says it is forging ahead with its decision to name a warship for the late Rep. John Murtha, despite protests the decorated Vietnam War veteran was disloyal in his 2006 accusation that Marines had murdered Iraqi civilians.

Three Facebook sites opposing the Navy's April 2010 decision bristle with thousands of angry postings.

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KEYWORDS: garbagescow; murtha; navy; ship
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1 posted on 03/01/2011 12:00:20 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Disgusting.


2 posted on 03/01/2011 12:02:15 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Who the hell was the idiot who signed off on this? They should be keelhauled under a carrier!


3 posted on 03/01/2011 12:02:28 PM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

disgrace..


4 posted on 03/01/2011 12:03:03 PM PST by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Why would they name a ship the U.S.S. Traitor?


5 posted on 03/01/2011 12:03:24 PM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Free ThinkerNY

A portrait of the scumbag as an old geezer.

6 posted on 03/01/2011 12:03:24 PM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I hope it’s a Higgins Boat, at most!


7 posted on 03/01/2011 12:03:28 PM PST by RexBeach (There is no such thing as a good tax.- Winston Churchill)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

How about the John P. Wheeler III instead


8 posted on 03/01/2011 12:03:57 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Paint the Thing Yellow!


9 posted on 03/01/2011 12:04:50 PM PST by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The Navy must be under DIRECT ORDERS from the Commander in Chief in the naming of the ship. Nothing else figures.


10 posted on 03/01/2011 12:05:21 PM PST by mentor2k
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Wait until the Pentagon finds out that the sailors nickname it something like the :”ABSCAM” or the BIG FAT MURTHA.


11 posted on 03/01/2011 12:06:15 PM PST by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
A quick kick in the gonads to anyone who has ever worn the uniform. I wouldn't name a garbage skow after that bastard!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!
12 posted on 03/01/2011 12:06:21 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN '69 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Only if it’s a garbage scow.


13 posted on 03/01/2011 12:06:24 PM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"The Navy says it is forging ahead with its decision to name a warship for the late Rep. John Murtha..."

The U.S.S. Abscam?

14 posted on 03/01/2011 12:06:31 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

15 posted on 03/01/2011 12:06:36 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Free ThinkerNY
garbage scow Pictures, Images and Photos
16 posted on 03/01/2011 12:08:44 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Rep. Jeanne Schmidt (R-OH) appropriately called out Murtha on the floor of the House.

John Murtha Hangs The Marines

17 posted on 03/01/2011 12:08:52 PM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free!)
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“There was no firefight. There was no IED that killed those innocent people. Our troops (Marines) overreacted because of the pressure on them, and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood.”

That’s quite a slogan for a navy ship designed to support the Marine Corps: “The USS John P. Murtha will be an amphibious transport vessel able to carry 700 Marines, their equipment and supplies.”

Disgusting. I just hope that President Palin will take office in time to fix this symbolic slap in the faces of all real Americans and to repeal the substantive evil of the far left liberal era.


18 posted on 03/01/2011 12:10:25 PM PST by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

As much as I love the Navy, the current command structure has the backbone of a marshmallow (or perhaps president). I f*rt in the general direction of their so-called leadership.

Murtha is slime.

Really Obama-smelling slime.


19 posted on 03/01/2011 12:13:22 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Abathar
Who the hell was the idiot who signed off on this? They should be keelhauled under a carrier!

I believe that would have been SecDef Gates
20 posted on 03/01/2011 12:14:39 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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