Posted on 01/15/2006 4:00:20 PM PST by armydawg1
(CBS) The vast majority of American troops will be out of Iraq by the end of this year. Who says so? Congressman John Murtha says so, and he explains his plan to make that happen to correspondent Mike Wallace.
The 73-year-old Democrat from Pennsylvania is a much-decorated war hero from Vietnam and Korea; a heavyweight in military matters in the Congress who stunned the Bush White House last November by calling for the withdrawal of all American troops from Iraq.
I was watching this in a restaurant tonight. I asked my wife if I could barf now. She said "no", so I had to turn around and stop watching the show.
"Sadly, you're delusional. I said, for the last time in a post to you, if you vets want to go after Murtha, have at it."
REAL conservatives, both vets AND non vets,
on this thread will clean up the mess.
Go for it.
Another fake 'Rat Vietnam hero. Disgusting.
Stop making an idiot out of yourself. You're being ridiculous now.
It does not work that way. He is in public service, and must answer for every injury and death that HE causes with his speech and actions. Traitorous POS that he is.
I'm old, stubborn, and cynical when it comes to the press, they are for the most part extempt from any sort of oversight and fact checking.
Which is why what we do here is so important, Asking the right questions of those that are above questioning is our mission.
"Stop making an idiot out of yourself. You're being ridiculous now."
You, Peach, are no Karl Rove!
Rove Credits Swiftvets With 'Energizing' Bush Vote (Thank You Karl Rove!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1345603/posts
I am of the impression that you and others are covering for a traitor, based upon his service. If that is the case, I am OK with that.
"One of the problems they have with enlistment is because they continually say how well things are going and the troops on the ground know better," Murtha adds
I hate to tell old Bourbon Breath, but re-enlistment is so high that even with the earlier problems with first time enlistments (the goals for which have been met more recently) that the overlevel of the Army has been maintained.
So the troops that are on the ground, and know the truth, are re-enlisting in larger than expected numbers. Meanwhile, due to Mr. Unwinable War and his Komrades at Code Pink, first time enlistments have suffered. After all, who wants to go fight in a war that's supposedly "already lost", and isn't important to the US anyway.
His other theme is that the "insurgents" are not terrorists, that there are few if any terrorists in Iraq, and those few all came after we went in. Of course that's not what we are hearing from people on the ground, but heck what do they know?
I have to give CBS a little credit, they do report that they did not find any troops that agreed with Murtha, and that most thought the mission both worthwhile and going well. But of course Murtha had the answer to that to. He didn't say "they are too dumb to know any better", but what he said was pretty much equivalent. Go read the story for yourself, if you have a strong stomach.
But to give you another taste, he said
"But you just cant sit back and allow this war to continue on without a clear exit strategy. Thats the reason Im so strong about this. I feel a mission here, with my experience, that, that I have to help the president find a way out of this thing."
Try winning as an exit strategy. It works every time.
WTF? He was born June 17, 1932. In his 1967 deployment to Nam we would have been 35. That's old to be a college student
From his Wikipedia entry, he joined the Marine Reserves in 1952 "during the Korean War". No mention of any actual deployment overseas
He did his high school at the Kiki School, an all-boy boarding prep school (indicating his family had money)
Murtha left Washington and Jefferson college in 1952 to join the Marines. After his active-duty stint, he ran a car wash, got his degree in economics from U Pittsburg.
I'd like to know more about him
bttt
"I am of the impression that you and others are covering for a traitor, based upon his service."
Peach belives this, I'm sure.
It's part of the "Movge On FReeper" talking points.
I don't, at all.
What he is doing now is much worse than anything he might have done in regards to his medals.
We have plenty of ammunition with what he is doing now, we don't need maybes' from the past.
Murtha joined the Marines in 52 "during the Korean War", yet no mention of any actual deployment to Korea. His family got money. I wonder what exactly he was actually doing during Korea?
I never watch 60 Minutes. What happened on that sorry excuse for a "news" magazine?
Trojan Horse? [Murtha medal issue a trap]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1558144/posts
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