Murtha Spews Propoganda on Meet The Press

"WE CANT WIN THIS WAR"

I watched congressman John Murtha yesterday on Meet The Press, and is was disgusting. Tim Russert barely questioned anything Murtha said during his numerous tirades over the half hour he was on the show. Murtha continued to denounce the war and said over and over again that we should 'redeploy' our troops to a periphery. Redeploy is rhetoric for cut and run, and he never said where exactly we should put our troops. Only saying that Kuwait and Qatar would be possible choices. Here is what the Wall Street Journal says of his plans:

As for Mr. Murtha's proposal that U.S. forces should redeploy to some nearby part of the Middle East, this is merely disguise for what everyone would understand was a defeat in Iraq. Anyone who doubts it should merely listen to Mr. Murtha, who said again yesterday on NBC's Meet The Press that "We cant win a war like this." Its more accurate to say that our troops have a harder time winning a war with political leaders as inconstant as Mr. Murtha, who voted to commit U.S. troops but now lacks the will to finish the job.

Thats exactly right. In fact, Tim Russert did bring up a passage from Murtha's own book from 2004, which says this:

"A war initiated on faulty intellegence must not be followed by a premature withdrawal of our troops based on a political timetable. An untimely exit could rapidly devolve into a civil war, which would leave America's foreign policy in disarray as countries question not only America's judgement but also its perseverance."

Well, Murtha obviously has decided to contradict himself now, and sacrifice the good of his country in the process. If you missed what he had to say yesterday, you can go here to watch it, or here to read the transcript of his pathetic appearance. Anyone else notice how Mr. Toughguy Marine John Murtha wont do any interviews on Fox News? I guess he is just too scared to get any actual questions.

surprised?

-Brad