It's like Cindy Sheehan all over again. When she first showed up outside Bush's ranch people held back because, after all, she was a grieving mother. Then the attention went to her head and Cindy began spouting anti-Semitic slurs and aligning herself with extremely dubious characters.
So too, with Murtha.
"You cannot win this thing militarily," Mr. Murtha said later at a press conference. "Most of [U.S. troops] will be out of there in a year if I have my way."
Mr. Murtha, senior Democrat on the House Appropriations defense subcommittee, has emerged as one of his party's most vocal war critics, after voting to authorize force to remove Saddam Hussein. He now says that vote was a mistake and last week called for quick withdrawal of all American troops from Iraq.
His assessment that the Army, in effect, no longer works brought a sharp response from Army headquarters at the Pentagon.
"The Army is not broken," Col. Joseph Curtin said. "Every day, our soldiers are making tremendous contributions in Iraq, in Afghanistan and more than 120 countries around the world. Retention rates are at an incredibly all-time high, particularly in the active component."
I'll have to agree with Ann Coulter here.
Can't Republicans disagree with a Democrat who demands that the U.S. surrender in the middle of a war without erecting monuments to him first? What would happen if a Democrat were to propose restoring Saddam Hussein to power? Is that Medal of Freedom territory?
I don't know what Republicans imagine they're getting out of all this love they keep throwing at Democrats. I've never heard a single liberal preface attacks on Oliver North with a recitation of North's magnificent service as a Marine. And unlike Murtha, who refuses to release his medical records showing he was entitled to his two Purple Hearts, we know what North did.
Enough is enough. Murtha's service in Vietnam doesn't make him immune to criticism. And it doesn't prove he's right either.
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