The reasons just keep adding up. So I think I’ll start keeping a running tally:
Here’s the current running list:
- Calling the Haditha Marines “cold-blooded” murderers and condemning them as guilty without a trial or an investigation.
- Stating that he would not join the Marines today if he were eligible, and encouraging other potential recruits not to join either.
- Claiming that the Iraq war is unwinnable (despite the overwhelming fact that we are winning).
- Alleging that the USA is more dangerous to world peace than North Korea or Iran.
And here are Reasons 5 and 6 to hate Rep. John Murtha (and for the good people of Pennsylvanis to replace him with Diana Irey in November):
Reason 5 — Mutha selling his vote instead of supporting veteran’s benefits:
Mr. Murtha has helped Republicans round up enough Democratic votes to narrowly block a host of Democratic proposals: …to add $150 million for veterans’ health care and job training
In one case that particularly irked Democratic partisans, Mr. Murtha led three others in voting against a politically vulnerable Louisiana Democrat’s proposal to divert money intended to be spent on base closings to research prosthetic limbs for veterans. It failed by one vote.
So, Murtha voted against providing funds to research prosthetic limbs for veterans, and against providing $150 million for veterans’ health care and job training benefits. And why did the Democrat “champion of the military” vote against these military benefits? In exchange for earmarks.
Reason 6 — Murtha is as corrupt as they come in Washington D.C.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has just published their second annual Most Corrupt Members of Congress report. Guess who’s on it? Yep. John Murtha.
I’m sure there are others — these are just the ones at the top of my head. I’ll update the list as I remember more and as more reasons to hate Murtha inevitabley present themselves. In fact, I’m creating a new, special Murtha category, too.
Actually, he is not as ‘corrupt as they come.’ Excluding the Representatives who are in jail or are heading to jail Murtha is in the second tier of ‘corrupt’ politicians according to your source.
So, yeah, it kind of seems like a jihad that you’re on. Sort of like the character assassins who didn’t like John Kerry’s actions after the Vietnam war so they attacked everything he did in the war.
Anyhoo, I’m interested in your opinion that the war in Iraq looks more winnable than it did, say, a year ago. This seems contrary to anything I’ve heard coming out of the mouths of retired generals.
Anyhoo, I’m interested in your opinion that the war in Iraq looks more winnable than it did, say, a year ago.
Start here:
As most who attended the rally know, I was there. After the dust had cleared created by some moonbat among the bootmurtha crowd who called in a fake police report that a fight had broken out, Larry Bailey came out to speak with me.
I complimented him from the bottom of my heart for the contributions he has made to our country’s national security while he was serving active duty in the US Navy.
He made it clear my request to speak would not happen. He then proceeded to suggest he has no memory of the email he wrote me on 8/20/2006 2:59:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time stating that our current Commander in Chief made stupid mistakes in Iraq.
Larry then proceeded to illustrate stupid mistakes made in passed wars. After he mentioned 3 or 4 examples I interjected that there is a difference between those wars and this one.
In the past it took weeks, months, sometimes years for mistakes to be discovered and reported. Today is the information age where mistakes are reported within hours of their occurrence. I reminded him this war was still going on. I also reminded him of the glaring mistakes he had acknowledged President Bush had made in Iraq, and our respective use of the Internet to support our respective views and that is where our conversation ended.
I waited outside the Arena with a Johnstown police officer who had stayed behind after the bootmurtha hysterics caused 3 squad cars and a sergeant to arrive with sirens blaring. I was debating Steeler football with him when a motorcycle officer stopped by, who had been inside. When I asked how many were inside he said, “not many at all” When I asked “500?”, he responded, “na … well maybe 500, at most.”
At the end of the event when Larry Bailey came out for a photo op next to the bootmurtha.com sign on the sidewalk outside the War Memorial Arena. I handed Larry the speech I had waited to deliver. He put it in his outside left coat pocket.
This is my speech Larry Bailey has in his coat pocket … the words he was not man enough to let me say:
“Please join me in Prayer.
Heavily father we pray today for you to continue to protect the men and women of the armed forces of the United States and other countries who are in harms way in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries throughout the world. We thank them and their families for their sacrifices.
We pray for the souls of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice in all wars. We pray for strength and courage for the POWs and MIAs and those held hostage.
We pray for protection and safety of relief workers helping those in need.
We pray for the protection of children and innocent civilians. Lord we especially pray for our nation and our leaders.”
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Below you will find the press release that went out on October 29th of this year.
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LARRY BAILEY (BOOTMURTHA.COM) OCTOBER 1ST RALLY IN JOHNSTOWN, PA.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Cliff Hancuff
September 29, 2006 (202) 247-1418
Journalismisflat@aol.com
“American troops could be home now, except for critical mistakes made by our current Commander in Chief,” charges Cliff Hancuff, Director of The World of Journalism Is Flat, Too.
“Media and right-wing bloggers are ignoring this fact. For weeks I have been challenging political activists and journalists to act with a minimum of ethical standards,” continued Hancuff.
“I became involved when the Sun-Sentinel in Florida reported that Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) said the U.S. poses the top threat to world peace. I watched in dismay as the media and bloggers worldwide reported on this misquote.”
“My involvement continued when I discovered Diana Irey, John Murtha’s political opponent, had attacked Murtha using a fictional quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln.”
“Larry Bailey of bootmurtha.com is continuing his three year blind support of our current Commander in Chief’s incompetence in war. President Bush declared war in Iraq without the 4th Infantry, our most lethal, modern, and deployable heavy division in the world,” added Hancuff.
This mistake lead to the atrocity of Al Qaqaa. Iraqi insurgents stole hundreds of tons of high explosives to be used as weaponry.
“These are the explosives being used by Iraqi insurgents and al Qaeda to perpetuate the war in Iraq.”
“I am distressed that the same issues ignored by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in 2004 are being ignored again in 2006,” said Hancuff adding, “Americans, American soldiers, and their families deserve better.”
“Without these critical mistakes made by our current Commander in Chief, our American troops would be home with their loved ones, with honor, right now.”
On October 1, 2006 Hancuff be at the Cambria County War Memorial Arena located in Johnstown Pennsylvania for Larry Bailey’s Swiftboating of John Murtha rally. It is there Hancuff will continue his wait for Mr. Bailey to recall the values of honor and integrity taught him by our US Navy.
There is a youtube.com video online at:
YouTube – Rovian Architecture Unplugged
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5jcyHokFyE
The World of Journalism Is Flat, Too
(202) 247-1418
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Unfortunately, as the NIE suggests terrorists don’t need al Qaeda or al Zarqawi anymore as demonstrated by the 4 fold increase in terrorism over the past 4 years.
The war in Iraq has successfully elevated terrorism to new levels of popularity in the Islamic world beyond the fringe groups that perpetuated the tactics throughout the 1980’s and 90’s.
In short, I’d like to see a more reliable metric than the word of mouth from just one head of the hydra.
You just skimmed right by one good thing about the Democrats, and you did it without comment. It’s the Democratic Party who have been the ones who have traditionally supported increased pay for soldiers, and increased benefits for veterans. It’s good to know they are for the most part standing by that tradition, though they as usual get no cedit for it, just like they get no credit for wanting to increase funding for Veterans hospitals, which Republicans, including Reagan, cut every chance they get. That’s how much the Republicans “love the troops”. All they do is increase the Pentagon budget, which is mainly money that gravitates to the big defense civilian contractors and back and forth to various officials and the big brass, and a few poltiicians. That’s fine, to a point, but they do it on the backs of the service men and women who actually have to do the bulk of the fighting and dying. They are the ones whose benefits get cut, and should feel insulted, and actusally quite pissed off when Republicans go on about how much they “love” the military.
In the meantime, my now late uncle, who died of prostrate cancer while sufferring from Alzheimers, and who was a wounded veteran of World War II, couldn’t even get put up for one night in Lexington Veterans Hospital durting the last two weeks of his life.