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The congressman who is demanding an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq has criticized fellow high-profile Democrat, Senator Hillary Clinton, for failing to back his stand. Interviewed by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., said he was unhappy with Clinton's failure to support his resolution calling for withdrawal. Asked by Goodman if he was disappointed with Clinton's position, Murtha replied: "Yeah, I’m disappointed. I’m not sure why that’s happened. She talked to me after I made my statement, and I see she's finally calling for Secretary Rumsfeld's resignation. And I think - I don't know what...

WASHINGTON, DC --- Congressman John Murtha brazenly declared that the US was the biggest threat to world peace, even compared to North Korea and Iran. The formerly unknown Murtha has now discovered that outrageous things get you attention and may even start walking around naked in Congress to get more attention. "I learned how to get attention by watching Cindy Sheehan," said Murtha. "No one used to know who I was. Now that I say the United States is worse than terrorists and crackpot dictators and how our soldiers are cold blooded killers, people are starting to listen to me....

Rep. John P. Murtha says Democrats are uniting around his call to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq. The Pennsylvania Democrat's plan was echoed yesterday by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, widely considered one of her party's leading voices on national security. "Two-thirds of the Democrats agree with my position now," Mr. Murtha told NBC's "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert. "Every place I go, people understand what I'm saying. The public has been way ahead." Mrs. Feinstein, appearing on CNN's "Late Edition," said the Iraq mission has taken too long. "I don't know why we are so afraid to stand up and...

Democrats on Capitol Hill last week could not defend remarks by Rep. John Murtha (D.-Pa.), their party's leading advocate of withdrawing from Iraq, who claimed on CNN that the operation that resulted in the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi could have been carried out without U.S. troops on the ground. The U.S. military action involved far more than merely bombing Zarqawi's hideout. On June 8, Maj. Gen. William Caldwell first described the operation in a nationally televised briefing. "What everybody needs to understand is the strike last night did not occur in a 24-hour period," said Gen. Caldwell. "It truly...