Michael Gaynor
Jack Murtha, Cindy Sheehan's senseless successor
By Michael Gaynor
President Bush was re-elected in 2004. But the far left Democrats and their malevolent media allies continued to campaign against him, focusing on each American death and each American mistake in Iraq and ignoring or minimizing all that went well and the great (but costly) progress toward the glorious goal of replacing a tyranny under Saddam Hussein, Remember: Saddam is a man who used weapons of mass destruction against his own people; tried to develop his own nuclear weapons (great work in delaying him, Israel!); invaded Kuwait (a small neighboring country), making it necessary for the first President Bush to assemble a coalition to expel his forces from that country; had his forces shoot at American and British airplanes rightfully patrolling Iraq's no-fly zones; bribed in order to circumvent economic sanctions and to delay (but ultimately not to avoid) his day of reckoning; and failed to fully comply with seventeen United Nations resolutions designed to assure the world that he would destroy all of his weapons of mass destruction and not replace them and acquire others, making it necessary for the second President Bush to secure Congressional authorization, assemble a coalition, depose Saddam, liberate Iraq and undertake the arduous but enormously important task of replacing Saddam's terrible tyranny with democracy in a country with a population that is very far from homogenous and unaccustomed to democracy.
Once a respected Marine, and a pro-military Democrat, Congressman Murtha apparently drank Democrat House Minority Leader Nasty Nancy Pelosi's Kool-Aid. These days he is behaving like one of the San Francisco Democrat's puppets instead of a heroic United States Marine (which he once was). It's pathetic.
First, Murtha suddenly appeared at a press conference and called for immediate "redeployment" of America's troops in Iraq instead of victory. Sending a clear signal to the enemy to hold on just a bit longer, because he and his fellow Democrats would press for an immediate end to America's military presence in Iraq. Discouraging free Iraqis from fighting the terrorists and die-hard Saddamists in advance of the critical Iraqi parliamentary elections then scheduled to be held in the near future.
When the House of Representatives quickly voted on immediate withdrawal, it won but 3 of 435 votes (NOT including those of either Murtha or Pelosi), but Murtha was not chastened.
On the same day that President Bush spoke about his plan for victory, Murtha told a civic group in Latrobe, Pennsylvania that most American troops would leave Iraq within a year because the Army is "broken, worn out" and "living hand to mouth." And followed up by appearing with CNBC's Chris Matthews, on "Hardball" to regurgitate those falsehoods and bad mouth the President.
Tragically, the ex-Marine had replaced the now exposed and disgraced Cindy Sheehan as the symbol of opposition to the liberation of Iraq and the establishment of a free democratic government there.
With the tremendous success of the December 15, 2005 parliamentary elections in Iraq and the beginning of a drawdown (as distinguished from an evacuation or withdrawal) of America's forces in Iraq, due to the improvement of the free Iraqis' capability to cope with the terrorists and die-hard Saddamists, Murtha began 2006 by plumbing a new depth of despicability: discouraging people from enlisting in America's all-volunteer armed forces.
Reuters, the British news service, reported it this way:
"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." Full Article
Congressman Murtha definitely has replaced Cindy Sheehan as the poster person for those who have been trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in Iraq by having America's forces prematurely withdrawn. Cindy seemed like their perfect front person, being the grieving mother of an authentic American hero who had died in Iraqi serving his country and the causes of freedom and security. But she became self-important and self-destructed, siding too obviously with the enemy, demonizing President Bush (who had already met and commiserated with her once) and even targeting the leftist media's favorite candidate for President in 2008, Hillary Rodham Clinton. So the leftist media dropped the camp-out specialist like a hot potato and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi recruited Murtha, a then little know, but senior, Democrat with highly respectable military experience, to replace Cindy.
Murtha obviously is self-destructing too. Instead of praising the fabulous reenlistment rates of Americans serving in Iraq (who are smarter and better than he is today), Murtha is trying to cause recruitment problems for America's military!
If contagious, Murtha's loss of nerve would turn all the hard-won achievement in Iraq into chaos, as the evil enemies of both free Iraqis and America eventually took control of Iraq with further savagery. Iraq, as well as America and the rest of the Americas, the UK and the rest of Europe, and the free countries of Asia, need to understand the consequences of taking the advice of the far left that apparently brainwashed the now seemingly befuddled Murtha.
What, if anything, won't Murtha do these days that obviously would aid and abet America's evil enemies?
© Michael Gaynor
President Bush was re-elected in 2004. But the far left Democrats and their malevolent media allies continued to campaign against him, focusing on each American death and each American mistake in Iraq and ignoring or minimizing all that went well and the great (but costly) progress toward the glorious goal of replacing a tyranny under Saddam Hussein, Remember: Saddam is a man who used weapons of mass destruction against his own people; tried to develop his own nuclear weapons (great work in delaying him, Israel!); invaded Kuwait (a small neighboring country), making it necessary for the first President Bush to assemble a coalition to expel his forces from that country; had his forces shoot at American and British airplanes rightfully patrolling Iraq's no-fly zones; bribed in order to circumvent economic sanctions and to delay (but ultimately not to avoid) his day of reckoning; and failed to fully comply with seventeen United Nations resolutions designed to assure the world that he would destroy all of his weapons of mass destruction and not replace them and acquire others, making it necessary for the second President Bush to secure Congressional authorization, assemble a coalition, depose Saddam, liberate Iraq and undertake the arduous but enormously important task of replacing Saddam's terrible tyranny with democracy in a country with a population that is very far from homogenous and unaccustomed to democracy.
Once a respected Marine, and a pro-military Democrat, Congressman Murtha apparently drank Democrat House Minority Leader Nasty Nancy Pelosi's Kool-Aid. These days he is behaving like one of the San Francisco Democrat's puppets instead of a heroic United States Marine (which he once was). It's pathetic.
First, Murtha suddenly appeared at a press conference and called for immediate "redeployment" of America's troops in Iraq instead of victory. Sending a clear signal to the enemy to hold on just a bit longer, because he and his fellow Democrats would press for an immediate end to America's military presence in Iraq. Discouraging free Iraqis from fighting the terrorists and die-hard Saddamists in advance of the critical Iraqi parliamentary elections then scheduled to be held in the near future.
When the House of Representatives quickly voted on immediate withdrawal, it won but 3 of 435 votes (NOT including those of either Murtha or Pelosi), but Murtha was not chastened.
On the same day that President Bush spoke about his plan for victory, Murtha told a civic group in Latrobe, Pennsylvania that most American troops would leave Iraq within a year because the Army is "broken, worn out" and "living hand to mouth." And followed up by appearing with CNBC's Chris Matthews, on "Hardball" to regurgitate those falsehoods and bad mouth the President.
Tragically, the ex-Marine had replaced the now exposed and disgraced Cindy Sheehan as the symbol of opposition to the liberation of Iraq and the establishment of a free democratic government there.
With the tremendous success of the December 15, 2005 parliamentary elections in Iraq and the beginning of a drawdown (as distinguished from an evacuation or withdrawal) of America's forces in Iraq, due to the improvement of the free Iraqis' capability to cope with the terrorists and die-hard Saddamists, Murtha began 2006 by plumbing a new depth of despicability: discouraging people from enlisting in America's all-volunteer armed forces.
Reuters, the British news service, reported it this way:
"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." Full Article
Congressman Murtha definitely has replaced Cindy Sheehan as the poster person for those who have been trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in Iraq by having America's forces prematurely withdrawn. Cindy seemed like their perfect front person, being the grieving mother of an authentic American hero who had died in Iraqi serving his country and the causes of freedom and security. But she became self-important and self-destructed, siding too obviously with the enemy, demonizing President Bush (who had already met and commiserated with her once) and even targeting the leftist media's favorite candidate for President in 2008, Hillary Rodham Clinton. So the leftist media dropped the camp-out specialist like a hot potato and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi recruited Murtha, a then little know, but senior, Democrat with highly respectable military experience, to replace Cindy.
Murtha obviously is self-destructing too. Instead of praising the fabulous reenlistment rates of Americans serving in Iraq (who are smarter and better than he is today), Murtha is trying to cause recruitment problems for America's military!
If contagious, Murtha's loss of nerve would turn all the hard-won achievement in Iraq into chaos, as the evil enemies of both free Iraqis and America eventually took control of Iraq with further savagery. Iraq, as well as America and the rest of the Americas, the UK and the rest of Europe, and the free countries of Asia, need to understand the consequences of taking the advice of the far left that apparently brainwashed the now seemingly befuddled Murtha.
What, if anything, won't Murtha do these days that obviously would aid and abet America's evil enemies?
© Michael Gaynor
The views expressed by RenewAmerica columnists are their own and do not necessarily reflect the position of RenewAmerica or its affiliates.
(See RenewAmerica's publishing standards.)
