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Anyone who has ever read the history of the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Civil War, WW I, WW I, the Korean War, or The Gulf War, knows that Jack Murtha is a geopolitical moron. It is not just American administrations, but all administrations of any nation that has fought a major war, who know that one CANNOT have a specific plan for how that war would go, much less for exactly what would be done once the war ended.

Any reporter who'd ever read any such histories, would also know that Murtha is a fool, plain and simple. Being charitable to the American press, I conclude that more of them are ignorant, than know these histories and are dishonest in not putting those facts side by side with Murtha's foolish statements.

Mere history is all it takes to blow Murtha out of the water. But the job of presenting those facts is on us, in the alternative media. I mean, can you see Katie Couric doing an in depth comparison between Murtha's babbling and Germany and Japan, from the middle of WW II until four years after V-E and V-J days.

President Roosevelt did not have a "detailed plan" either for exactly how the balance of the war would be fought and won. He did not have a "detailed plan" for the reconstruction of Germany and Japan after their surrenders. And if Roosevelt had had such plans, circumstances and problems on the ground would have prevented the US from following the plans as written.

This is plain common sense. Murtha had his common sense surgically removed about five years ago. Members of the American press are (largely) hired because they can demonstrate that they were born without common sense. So we have to make up for that lack.

Congressman Billybob

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