Posted on 01/05/2006 11:52:57 AM PST by PurpleMan
Gen Pete Pace (Chairman, Joint Chief) is firing back at Rep Murtha in his Pentagon news conference.
He said that even with Murtha's distiinguished career, his comments were damaging to readiness, damaging to morale of the troops and is damaging to the families of those who are putting their life in danger.
Additionally, he said that Murtha's comments send the wrong message.
General Pace is one of the most outstanding Marines ever.
and his picante sauce is pretty good, too.
"He couldn't be more correct. Murtha is at best, irresponsible, at worst, treasonous."
Not intentionally treasonous, more of a useful idiot.
It's simply politics uber alles, m'dear.
It really is extraordinary seeing as the General is speaking about one of his bosses.
LOL
Well they did put a Marine in the job :)
Murtha the poster man for severe agent orange cerebral damage
"When did a Democrat ever care about the military since Vietnam?"
As a Vietnam era vet, I can categorically attest to the fact that the members of the RAT party didn't give a hoot in Hades for the military at that time. Nor did their willing comrades in the msm, for that matter.
The only time that a member of the military is shown an iota of respect by these maggots, is when that member parrots their party line.
30 plus years later, not a damn thing has changed.
Whats really incredible is that Vietnam was a Democratic War run by JFK and LBJ and a Democratic Senate and House!!
Nixon ran on a platorm of the secret plan to get out, he won and succeeded in his Plan while the Democrats vilified him and then caused the Vietnam slaughter by cutting the funds and aid to the South Vietnamese Government and they get away with this horrible lie.
In part -- I really do think there's a psyciatric explanation for much of what passes for modern liberalism.
More than that, though, I think they've allowed their personal desires and biases to overrule facts that are detrimental to their desires and biases. (This is one way to identify an ideological stance.)
Couple with this a tendency to hang around people who share their ideological views, which isolates them further from inconvenient facts.
This leads to a loss of perspective, followed by the same sort of snow-blindess that causes people who are very nice in person, to behave horribly in e-mail or places like FR.
Conservatives are often guilty of the same sin; however, our biases tend to manifest themselves in different subjects -- hence we avoid the sort of poisonous, treasonous stuff that seems to plague the Democrats.
""It really is extraordinary seeing as the General is speaking about one of his bosses.""
I may be wrong but I don't think congressman are in the chain of command at least I never got a pay grade high enough to get involved.....are they saluted???
In my experience I have found first hand that liberals are generally pessimists.
They keep the shrinks busy and the big pharmaceutical companies in the black.
Two years on active duty and 29 years on Reserve status. Yeah, he served, alright.
Active Reserve?
Just out of curiosity, what was Murtha's rank?
MSM spin: General Pace praised Congressman Murtha but adds nothing new in press conference.
I believe Colonel, but I've seen comments that most of his years were in the reserves as a politician.
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