Murtha Calls Pentagon ‘despicable’

House Democrat calls Pentagon ‘despicable’
Murtha denounces Defense Department for ‘scaring people’ in funds fight
msnbc
WASHINGTON
In their latest tussle with the White House on the Iraq war, two leading House Democrats said Tuesday the Pentagon was using scare tactics to try to goad Congress into passing another war spending bill.
And Reps. David Obey and John Murtha said they won’t bite.
Obey, D-Wis., chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, and Murtha, D-Pa., head of the panel’s Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, said they won’t support more money for the war this year unless President Bush accepts a timetable for troop withdrawals. Story continues below ↓advertisement
Last week, the House passed a $50 billion bill that would keep operations afloat for several more months, but sets a goal of bringing most troops home by December 2008. After Bush threatened to veto the measure, Senate Republicans blocked it.

“If the president wants that $50 billion released, all he has to do is to call the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, and ask him to stop blocking it,” Obey told reporters.

and this……….
Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Friday signed a memo ordering the Army to begin planning for a series of expected cutbacks, including the layoffs of as many as 100,000 civilian employees and another 100,000 civilian contractors, starting as early as January.
and this……………
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the military has only limited transfer authority.

“Those who think we have some sort of flexibility here are simply misinformed,” Whitman told reporters on Tuesday. “We’ve entered into a very serious period here.”

Murtha said the Pentagon was issuing “irresponsible” propaganda.

Murtha sees no credibility at Defense Department “They’re scaring people,” he said. “They’re scaring the families of the troops . . .That’s the thing that’s so despicable.”

Wild Thing’s comment……..
The despicable one in this scenario is Murtha himself. Murtha is a traitor and Obey continues to show that he meant what he said on the floor and his apology was a farce! This is more filthy treasonous rhetoric from another treasonous liberal rat.
Murtha has done everything in his power to demoralize the country, undermine the troops, and to try to make us lose this war. Now that we are clearly, incontrovertibly winning, he chooses to continue his vicious, depraved assaults on so many people much better than he is. Murtha is scum.