[Calpernia]

>>>>but I do find it difficult to call Murtha a traitor.

How about this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1489385/posts
My Enemy's Enemy by George Crile

>>>The chairman of the Defense Appropriations subcommittee at the time, Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), had been caught in the FBI's ABSCAM sting operation in which an agent disguised as a Saudi sheik offered members of Congress large cash bribes.<<<<

I do believe Murtha was instrumental in facilitating what has led us up to the events of today.

[H.Akston]

Thanks very much! I read the whole thing. It can also be found here:

http://www.afgha.com/?af=article&sid=33892

I still have a hard time calling Murtha a traitor, just because he threw too much American know-how into Jihadistan after the Soviets had left. There was the soviet puppet regime in power, and the Mujahadeen weren't America's enemies then. Ignorant, short-sighted, blundering, gullible; yes. Traitor, no.

It's interesting though - the article shows how his 1990's experience might be making him very skittish about overstaying our "welcome" in the middle east, and how he could have developed a premise that we never get any credit with the muslims for helping them. We did get some credit with the Kuwaitis. There might be a little guilt in play here, too, for feeding the infant monster.