mysteryman, you always have a hard time finding what you dont wanna find. "In his announcement, Mr. Murtha said he had weighed the risks of an overstretched military, an "out of control" deficit and the situation on the ground in Iraq, which he believes is getting worse with each day. He noted only half of the $18 billion Congress allocated for Iraq's reconstruction has been spent and that unemployment in Iraq is above 40 percent. His many visits to Iraq, he said, had convinced him that Iraqis want U.S. soldiers to leave."
http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:ntFYBNOg8aEJ:www.post-gazette.com/pg/05322/608577.stm+murtha+visits+iraq&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Well, even so, even if he's been there a hundred times, that doesn't mean that Ann Coulter isn't right about him.
http://www.anncoulter.org/cgi-local/welcome.cgi
Murtha has got to go.
In 1993, he authored legislation to restore prayer in public schools. "Religion is part of America's history, part of America's strength and, for most of us, part of our daily lives," Murtha said in a statement.
Murtha says he wouldn't join military now
Murtha says he wouldn't join military now
Tue Jan 3, 2006 9:00 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters)
Rep. John Murtha, a key Democratic voice who favors pulling U.S. troops from Iraq, said in remarks airing on Monday that he would not join the U.S. military today.
A decorated Vietnam combat veteran who retired as a colonel after 37 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, Murtha told ABC News' "Nightline" program that Iraq "absolutely" was a wrong war for President George W. Bush to have launched.
"Would you join (the military) today?," he was asked in an interview taped on Friday.
"No," replied Murtha of Pennsylvania, the top Democrat on the House of Representatives subcommittee that oversees defense spending and one of his party's leading spokesmen on military issues.
"And I think you're saying the average guy out there who's considering recruitment is justified in saying 'I don't want to serve'," the interviewer continued.
"Exactly right," said Murtha, who drew White House ire in November after becoming the first ranking Democrat to push for a pullout of U.S. forces from Iraq as soon as it could be done safely.
At the time, White House spokesman Scott McClellan equated Murtha's position with surrendering to terrorists.
Since then, Bush has decried the "defeatism" of some of his political rivals. In an unusually direct appeal, he urged Americans on December 18 not to give in to despair over Iraq, insisting that "we are winning" despite a tougher-than-expected fight.
Murtha did not respond directly when asked whether a lack of combat experience might have affected the decision-making of Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and their former top deputies.
"Let me tell you, war is a nasty business. It sears the soul," he said, choking up. "And it made a difference. The shadow of those killings stay with you the rest of your life."
Asked for comment, a Defense Department spokesman, Lt. Col. John Skinner, said: "We have an all-volunteer military. People are free to choose whether they serve or not."
"Our freedom of speech in this country allows all of us the opportunity to voice an opinion. It's one of our great strengths as a nation," he added in an e-mailed reply.
The White House had no immediate comment.
Murthra couldn't join the military now since he is senile. What some people do not know is that Murtha is a "stealth Democrat"..According to the Almanac of American Politics- 2002- P. 1327 he is:"John Murtha, A DEMOCRAT, first elected in a 1974 special election that signaled the political weakness of Richard Nixon"...Murtha is one of those old time politicians who operate best in secret, sitting in the back of the House Chamber trading gossip and votes....WITH JOHN DINGELL, HE LEADS A FACTION OF DEMOCRATS OPPOSED TO GUN CONTROL." end of quote
That explains it. Anyone who is so unbalanced that they cooperate with the doddering John Dingell who is now eighty year old and one of the cheif kooks in the House, cannot be taken seriously.
