Murtha: Surge Is Working
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I have never even pretended to have any respect for John Murtha, the utterly corrupt, unindicted ABSCAM co-conspirator who has served as a Congressman from Pennsylvania for far too long. I think he is a hack and exemplifies everything that is wrong in Washington. I also believe his posturing pandering to the anti-war left has been dangerous to our troops and has been nothing more than political opportunism.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. John Murtha today said he saw signs of military progress during a brief trip to Iraq last week, but he warned that Iraqis need to play a larger role in providing their own security and the Bush administration still must develop an exit strategy.
"I think the 'surge' is working," the Democrat said in a videoconference from his Johnstown office, describing the president's decision to commit more than 20,000 additional combat troops this year. But the Iraqis "have got to take care of themselves."
Violence has dropped significantly in recent months, but Mr. Murtha said he was most encouraged by changes in the once-volatile Anbar province, where locals have started working closely with U.S. forces to isolate insurgents linked to Al Qaeda.
The polls changed and so did the weather vane that is John Murtha. AllahPundit has video of Murtha denouncing other Democrats who came back from Iraq saying there was real progress. (The weather hadn't changed then, apparently.) No matter how he tries to qualify this, Murtha just did a complete 180. My guess is that he is seeing polling that he is very worried about. This corrupt piece of work would not reverse course so completely unless he was actually worried – to the point of being frantic - about something.
I said all along that it was a very bad bet the Democrats were making against America and American forces.
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By martian, November 30, 2007 @ 2:55 pm
The problem is that the vast majority (not all) of liberal Democrats have never served in the military. Thus, they have no idea what the US Military is capable of achieving. Worse, their entire view of the military is that they are corrupt, baby killer, criminal sociopaths (Thank you Viet Nam era Liberals). Add to that a complete lack of historical knowledge (they don’t like facts that contradict their world view) and it is completely understandable that they would bet against America and American forces.
They have no clue that the American military they are betting against doesn’t exist and that the America they are betting against is an America that only exists in the liberal mind – not the America that became the most powerful and compassionate super power in the history of the world and did it in less than 200 years from her inception.
By Gaius, November 30, 2007 @ 3:10 pm
I think it was over at Redstate where one writer said that Marines he knows refers to Murtha – every time – as an ‘ex-Marine’. That is not a compliment.
By martian, November 30, 2007 @ 6:52 pm
Indeed, Gaius, that is NOT a compliment. Generally (and I’ve had it said in my presence) when you use the term ex-Marine in front of a Marine he/she will immediately and forcefully respond, “There’s no such thing as an ex-Marine”. For them to refer to Murtha as an “ex-Marine” means that he is being completely and totally disowned and disavowed.