Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:10:48
Michael Mooretha - UPDATED
Lee is on Murtha’s ass again.
Here’s the latest justification for feeling contempt towards Murtha.
“Sixty to eighty percent of Iraqis want us out,” Murtha said. “And 45 pecent say it’s justified to kill Americans. The State Department’s own polls say the same thing. It’s time to let Iraqis take over this effort. Let them solve their own problems, as we did in the revolutionary war.”In other words, Murtha sees an intellectual parallel between the fight for freedom against the British Crown and the fight on the part of Islamofascists in Iraq to drive out the US and implement a fascist Islamic dictatorship. I guess, like Michael Moore, he views al-Zarqawi and his ilk as “Minutemen and Revolutionaries”, or “freedom fighters” like Cindy Sheehan does. Now, someone tell me again why this guy’s 37 years in the Marine Reserves should buy him a free pass from criticism over outrageous comments like this?
Let me extend this argument: Murtha says that we should let the Iraqi people solve this themselves “as we did in the revolutionary war.”
Setting aside the fact that Revolutionary War is a proper noun and deserves capitalization...Murtha has claimed we solved our own problems when seceding from England.
Any high school...nay, any middle school student can tell you, we had a lot of help to win that war, starting with the French, who at that time were not a nation of sniveling, appeasing snobs, but rather a nation of warriors skilled at tactics and willing to fight with their friends and allies.
That simple fact alone negates Murtha’s argument and demonstrates his complete ignorance of American history.
These are our leaders? They say a people get the government they deserve...but even we don’t deserve this kind of rank stupidity and ignorance.
*UPDATE*
Wow. You have to read this entire long, detailed post about Murtha and his blathering over at Mudville Gazette. It’s all worth it. Because I love you, I will give you the money quote right here.
“Yes sir my name is Mark Seavey and I just want to thank you for coming up here. Until about a month ago I was Sgt Mark Seavey infantry squad leader, I returned from Afghanistan. My question to you, (applause)
“Like yourself I dropped out of college two years ago to volunteer to go to Afghanistan, and I went and I came back. If I didn’t have a herniated disk now I would volunteer to go to Iraq in a second with my troops, three of which have already volunteered to go to Iraq. I keep hearing you say how you talk to the troops and the troops are demoralized, and I really resent that characterization. (applause) The morale of the troops that I talk to is phenomenal, which is why my troops are volunteering to go back, despite the hardships they had to endure in Afghanistan.
“And Congressman Moran, 200 of your constituents just returned from Afghanistan. We never got a letter from you; we never got a visit from you. You didn’t come to our homecoming. The only thing we got from any of our elected officials was one letter from the governor of this state thanking us for our service in Iraq, when we were in Afghanistan. That’s reprehensible. I don’t know who you two are talking to but the morale of the troops is very high.”
Moran - who is one of the few congressmen supporting Charlie Rangel’s call to restore the draft - responded quickly: “That wasn’t in the form of a question, it was in the form of a statement. But, uhh… let’s go over here.” And he took the next question.
That was not in the form of a response to Sgt Seavey in any way shape or form.
Wow. That is just a devastating knockout.
Watch the mainstream media and the left, mainly the Democrats, first ignore this truth, then, when enough soldiers speak out, spin it as far from the truth as possible.
Posted by JimK at 06:10 PM on January 06, 2006
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#2 Posted by Drumwaster 
on 01/06 at 08:40 PM -
But the analogy still holds, because we would be helping the Iraqis “stick it to” the terrorists - both native and foreign - who want to turn their country into the new Talibanistan.
#3 Posted by Harley W Daugherty on 01/06 at 11:28 PM -
The French, after th war got into another tussle with england and then demanded our help.
when the US congress explained that we were in no shape to help them invade Canada and carry on another war they turned on us.
figures.
Of course the Brits figured that the whole crazy idea of a United states would implode and they could just step in and take over again with little resistance.
#4 Posted by Harley W Daugherty on 01/07 at 01:12 AM -
Damm Jim, that is a hell of a note there,,,,
too bad it wont get played inthe MSM.
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Well from my understanding the French helping us out during the Revolutionary War was more a way to stick it to the British more than to actually help us but your point about the French at that time is still good.