[Congressman Billybob]

Since the outcome of the Murtha vote is not in question, and only the hypocrisy score for certain Democrats needs to be added up, I wrote this early, and post it early.

John / Billybob

[Brilliant]

If Murtha was prepared to cut and run at the first sign of difficulty, he should not have voted for the war to begin with. He obviously has no clue what he's doing. I would suggest that he look for some other line of work.

[Jemian]

Good job.

[kayak]

Thanks for this great article that puts this debate in the proper perspective.

[Calusa]

Pg.

[sirjohn]

The Dems are calling it "shameful politics" to be asked to vote on the course they have been strongly advocating.

Am I missing something? </sarcasm>

[No Longer Free State]

Great Freepin' point, John

[jmaroneps37]

I just watched Murtha speak. I found him to be:
A) Unimpressive
B) Unpersuasive
C) Unpatriotic
D) UnMarine.
I don't care if that wind bag signed up in Tun's tavern
230 years ago.
He used fancy language to take the COWARD'S way out and quit. I don't know what Marine Corps this man was in but cowardice, cutting and running was NOT what I was taught at Parris Island. His lies about 80% of Iraqi's wanting us out were embarrassing to me as an American.

[kayak]

bttt and a request for ping lists so this will get wider readership ...

[bootless]

Awesome, John.

[voteconstitutionparty]

Instead it was the British who pulled a "Murtha".

[Redbob]

If the French had cut and run?
Woulda taken us what? another six months?

And then we could have dispensed with 225 years of unnecessary gratitude to a bunch of Euro-slime.

[writer33]

Good stuff, CB. Thanks for posting it.

[A message]

Once again, clear thinking.

Good post.

[mtntop3]

It occurred to me while Murtha was reading yet another letter (presumably) from a (stated) suffering military spouse and indicating that our national defense and security and that of the world should be based essentially on such things - that Gen. George S. Patton would have slapped Murtha hard in the face.

[Ciexyz]

good article!

[vpintheak]

Shows just what the cowardly scum of the left is made up of. They have the heart and strength of popular culture, in other words, they have none of either.

[Candor7]

John/Billybob

You got the "right stuff."

Thanks.

I like to use the same parallel approach," What if we had intervened in Germany to blunt the rise of the fascism instead of chewing our cuds under Roosevelt?"

Woeld War II would have been averted. Iraq shows that we have absorbed a lesson learned from WW II.

That ain't bad at all!

Ne Oblie.

[LET LOOSE THE DOGS OF WAR]

You always appear at the right time and say the right thing - Thank You.

[Strategerist]

Ummmm...

If France had cut and run during the American Revolution, FRANCE would have been a LOT better off.

France spent a huge amount of money on that war (Which was a global war with Britain) and racked up huge debts.

These debts and financial collapse contributed greatly to the French Revolution, which resulted in the execution of the French King and Queen.

The argument this article makes is horrendously bad.

[George W. Bush]

This is a very entertaining read. But it's hard to draw the historical parallel in this way. I was trying to think of one more comparable to our current circumstances.

I can think of several but they kind of fail the test.

I'm not sure history can tell us much about something like this. Maybe our invasion/occupation/democratization of Japan would be a better fit.

Besides, we hate the French and love the Brits!