Murtha is one of those tough dudes -- out of a Tom Clancy novel

[kpete]

Murtha's Message: Our Troops Are Getting Blown Apart and We Have No Strategy, Mr. President

Democratic hawk John Murtha is sort of like a living version of John Wayne in Congress. He was a marine. He put his life on the line for his country in time of war. He's a guy of few words. He doesn't really like reporters or spinning stories. He hangs out on weekends with soldiers who have had amputations or are recovering from other war wounds at Walter Reed Hospital.

To put it simply, Murtha is one of those tough dudes -- out of a Tom Clancy novel -- that is patriotic to the core and yet sees this nation's security, military forces, and economy going over a cliff. And he's now said so.

The importance of his introduced House Resolution calling for U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq is that he's compelling Republicans and other Congressional colleagues to put their political identities on the line one way or the other. If his colleagues want to stay in Iraq, then get a strategy, a game plan, something that's just an amorphous, never-ending fuzziness of dead troops and wasted supplemental budgets. But he's saying that the status quo is indefensible, and he's right.

John Wayne quote -- that I think John Murtha is familiar with:

"Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much."

-- Steve Clemons
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/

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1. I agree about Rep Murtha but

John Wayne was only tough in the movies.

My favorite John Wayne Movie Quote - "My father was a Chief Petty Officer."

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