“They want to depose me, a seventeen-term Congressman. Is that even constitutional?”
Posted on 08/09/2006 4:06:54 PM PDT by Coop
John Murtha... is taking obscene criticism from the right for daring to point out that the Bush administration has given our troops an all-but-impossible job in Iraq.
The 17-term congressman had already inflamed the Swift Boat crowd last year by calling for a rapid withdrawal of U.S. forces.
The fallout reached a ridiculous low point last fall when a Republican congresswoman who'd never been within several time zones of a battlefield called Murtha, winner of two Purple Hearts, a coward on the House floor. [Coop note: Any bets as to how close any of these editors ever came to a battlefield?]
Now, incredibly, the partisan rhetoric is even more vile. Murtha is being called a traitor and a "fifth columnist" because he responded to reports of a possible massacre in Haditha, Iraq, by lamenting that Marines shot Iraqi civilians "in cold blood."
The descriptions of what happened in Haditha on Nov. 19, 2005, are among the ugliest to come out of the war. The Marines said initially that civilians were killed in crossfire with insurgents after a bomb killed a Marine. A military probe since then has amassed evidence that Marines may have deliberately shot and killed 24 civilians, including children, in a house-to-house search, and that attempts were made to cover up the incident. [Coop note: A military probe, which you're apparently so fond of, has already concluded there was no cover up. Get up to date... on a whole host of issues!]
Murtha's point was that such incidents are an inevitable result of leaving troops too long in the middle of an emerging civil war with no clear mission.
That's not the talk of a traitor... A country that can't handle that kind of debate is a country that can't handle democracy.
(Excerpt) Read more at centredaily.com ...
RDTF wrote:
http://counterterrorismblog.org/
Anti-Israeli Cyberterrorist Attacks Planned for Tomorrow
By Evan Kohlmann
Participants on key Arabic-language Al-Qaida chat forums on the Internet have announced their intent to
launch collective cyberterrorist attacks tomorrow, August 10, aimed at interrupting or denying service to
other pro-Israeli websites--namely the "Internet Haganah" cyberterror watchdog site run by Aaron
Weisburd.
Good time for those interested in this conflict to bookmark the alternate Free Republic site, here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freerepublic2/
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Good thinking. Thanks.
“They want to depose me, a seventeen-term Congressman. Is that even constitutional?”
>>>>As far as I'm concerned Murtha is to blame for 9/11.
And the funding of Wilson's War.
"It seems to me that the media is in overdrive trying to protect Murtha's sorry butt. Why? They keep insisting he's not in any re-election trouble. ;-)"
The Philly Enquirer?? You mean that big city clear at the other end of the state? Good grief! *Someone* is REALLY pulling out all the stops. In fact, for the Enquirer to acknowledge that there is "life" west of Philly must have taken some doing. ;)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1674796/posts?page=45#45
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1674796/posts?page=53#53
CMU and DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) funding.
It looks like a real shirt, but I do not have a source personally.
Maybe some here may have a link to a source ?
Otherwise, you could visit a local t-shirt store as they may be able to re-produce it.
FYI Ping to #42
And yet, most of us Veterans oppose this sniviling opportunist.
Ever notice the left fails to address that fact?
I got it bookmarked and pinged friends on other threads
You can order that at BootMurtha. Scroll down and on the right click on the shirt.
http://www.bootmurtha.com/
Coop...you must be really a masochist to read that screed...sorry, it lost me after the first line..couldn't read the rest.
If he and Lamont actually win in Nov., the Republic ought to be ashamed of itself. Irey gets my money even though I live in the Soviet Republic of Ca.
Thanks for the ping.
When a conservative objects to a leftist smearing the troops, that's "censorship."
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