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To: nutmeg; All

We're going to look very stupid in the morning if we keep trumpeting this soundbite. For the record, that is not the context in which Murtha said this:

"Our troops have become the enemy"

He was referring to the way he felt they were being shafted by the government upon their return home.


6,855 posted on 11/18/2005 8:31:10 PM PST by streetpreacher (If at the end of the day, 100% of both sides are not angry with me, I've failed.)
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To: streetpreacher
We well understand the context in which Murtha said:

"Our troops have become the enemy."

He meant it more broadly than you suggest. He meant it in the same way that liberals from Kerry to Pelosi have always meant it: our troops are hated by the left and are considered by the left to be the chief instrument of evil in the world.

Murtha merely declared his solidarity with the left on this vile point.

6,949 posted on 11/18/2005 8:36:49 PM PST by JCEccles
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I believe his point, was that our US Troops have become the enemy to all of the Iraqi people.


7,072 posted on 11/18/2005 8:44:49 PM PST by Treader (Hillary's dark smile is reminiscent of Stalin's inhuman grin...)
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