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.
The issue is that Murtha and other Democrats want to cut and run because a war is going past one election cycle.
I don't even see Iraq as difficult, it just takes time to grow Iraqs new troops to do their own job, then we leave.
From the beginning, Bush said this would take a long time, would not be easy and would test the will of the American people to stand firm.
The Democrats view this war as unwinable because they see the whole area as full of religious fanatics that will keep sending more and more people at our troops until we are forced to leave.
That is their opinion, as we heard from Jordan's failed female bomber, we've blown her family and cohorts to bits. Seems leaders and long term terrorists are thinning out and that is a sign we are kicking butt IMO.
I heard a military guy being interviewed by the press yesterday and the number of Iraqi troops trained are now up to 200k.