You know who wants us to stay in Iraq right now???

[TexasLawyer]

al Qaeda, China, North Korea, Russia... read on...

Murtha's being swift-boated big time by Ann Coulter and other RNC creeps. Now I know why. This speech is a powerful argument for withdrawing from Iraq ASAP. I urge you to read it and share it with Bush KoolAid drinkers, if you know any.


Murtha's House speech on Iraq withdrawal, June 16, 2006.

A transcript of the Pennsylvania Democrat's speech bashing the occupation.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/themix/37707/

http://www.alternet.org/images/managed/Blog+Image_thumb_murtha.jpg

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We are the targets. We are causing the problem. You know who wants us to stay in Iraq right now, the al Qaeda wants us there because it recruits people for them. China wants us there. North Korea wants us there. Russia wants us there. We are depleting our resources, just like Russia depleted their resources in Afghanistan. The same thing is happening with the United States. We will have spent $450 billion by the end of this fiscal year. Now think, the first gulf war we spent $5 billion. We have spent $450 billion.

Stay and we will pay, not only pay in dollars, in money; we are going to pay long term.

I figure it took us through the Reagan administration to pay for the Vietnam War. We had 18 to 21 percent interest rates during the Reagan administration, and the reason we did was because Lyndon Johnson, the President of the United States, said we can have butter and we can have guns, and he didn't raise the taxes he should have raised when we had the war going on.

So we continue to pay with lives lost in terms of financial treasure and more than $8 billion a month. We pay in terms of international reputation. We pay in terms of the future of our military. We stay and pay. I say redeploy and be ready.

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[TexasLawyer]

1. edited to add slightly sexier title

I should know better than to put the word "transcript" in a thread title. It will drop like a lead weight.

[bdamomma]

2. oh yes, those countries are just watching us

go bankrupt. this regime is bleeding us dry literally.

[Nikki Stone 1]

3. I really like Murtha more than ever

He's a leader

[Roland99]

4. Glad to see someone of the calibre of Murtha mirroring my own statements

:)

[TexasLawyer]

5. Murtha is getting seriously "swift-boated" by Freepers

invading other web sites. Just one example:

http://forums.go.com/abcnews/Politics/thread?threadID=379123

Rove_Lives:
Posted: Jun 16, 2006 10:24 PM
reply

37 Posts
Registered: Jun 15, 2006 10:45 AM
What is wrong with everyone. Murtha went on national televison and accused a group of marines of cold blooded murder.

Wait,he didn't just accuse, the said for a "fact" that they killed innocent civilians in cold blood. Of course they haven't even been charged and the investigation is underway but so what? He is an ex marine.

The marines love him for his honesty in condeming the troops.

[Roland99]

6. Murtha held his own under attack by that Repuke on the House floor

[mdmc]

7. So Dennis Kucinich was right along

Murtha should have been saying this from 9-11-2001 on. Better late then never. :shrug:

[dweller]

9. DK is always right on this issue

has been calling for withdrawal since early 2004 primary season.
:thumbsup:

dp

[dweller]

8. ...

:kick:

R!

Rep. Murtha :patriot:

dp