Whatever he might have been in 1966 is irrelevant to what he has become in the interim.
So, in your view, Jack Murtha isn't a "good military man". What, pray tell, are your bona fides in determining this? Murtha has been on the side of the troops for as long as he's been in Congress. His heroism in combat is unquestioned. I fervently believe that he is flat wrong on this issue, but step softly around me before labeling him a "coward" or "not a good military man". We sound just like the DUmmies when we smear honorable men because we disagree with them.