Mad Man Murtha

Lynn says:

Sounds more and more like Jabba the Hutt from Star Wars every day. We don’t kill innocents and most of the fighting is amongst the Iraqis, we’re in the background just helping out anymore. It’s not even a war anymore. We’re the teachers helping the Iraqis learn to walk and talk on their own for the first time in many, many years without fear of retaliation. Murtha needs to blow up and float away like that guy in Dune.

Rhod says:

Look hard at the fat pantload and you have to realize he’s had a few cerebral events. All that lard and grease coursing through those slimy veins and arteries have left this clown brain dead.
What’s wrong with Pennsylvania? Too many leftards? No, Murtha brings home the bacon for himself and for them.
BTW, Combat vet Lt Col William Russell is running against fat Murtha this year.

Jack says:

With our ‘hero’ Murtha there seems to be some controversy about his wounds and their validity reminiscent of John Kerry. I find it peculiar that the commissioned suffer this malady more than the non commissioned.
My suspicions about Murtha is that he was amongst those few officers who fell into that high ratio of officers to enlisted where there were not nearly enough legitimate command and staff positions for all the officers. New positions had to be created, for which new functions had to be devised.
As such the military bureaucracy began to expand in all branches, especially with the proliferation of research and development (R&D) commands and liaison offices, the expansion of staff billets and the invention of new duties basically intended to make work for the underemployed.
These essentially bureaucratic positions did not prepare officers for combat command, so there arose an insistence on frequent rotation between staff, administrative, technical and line positions, ranging between 12 and 24 months.
Officers had to “get their tickets punched” by serving in the widest range of positions in order to qualify for promotion (this is sometimes called the “Merit Badge Syndrome”).
Officers passed over for promotion were normally required to retire (the “Up or Out” principle).
For an officer about to get cashiered from being passed over, a ‘combat wound’ surely was a graceful ticket out and an unemcumbered platform for a political career.
Far too many officers viewed Vietnam as a place to ”get their tickets punched” on the ladder to higher rank.
I for one left a promising career over the “chickenshit”.
” Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power and authority and prestige… insistence on the letter rather than the spirit of ordinances. Chickenshit is so called — instead of horse — or bull — or elephant shit — because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously. Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war.”
I know that short of losing consciousness, that just when, where and how a wound was sustained is without question, why then is it such a stretch for John Murtha or John Kerry to tell the truth?
Vote for Lt Col William Russell.

Wild Thing says:

Cheryl, I agree so much, he should be striped of all Military – honors and all the other things you said too.

Wild Thing says:

Les thank you so much. I saved it, I like that artist and I like the way they listed things with the graphic.
Yes Murtha is right there buddy buddy with Code Pink.

darthcrUSAderworldtour07 says:

Most US MARINES are the best, but Murtha and Lee Harvey Oswald were NOT! He will forever have to continuously look over his shoulder, big time! Murtha isn’t off the ‘fish’ hook….yet!!