Nightline - Rep John Murtha on about the ill-planned war

[RamboLiberal]

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[Wonk]

1. What an interesting choice of words on their website...

President Bush showed his support during a meeting with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other top leaders at the Pentagon. But support around Washington is feigning. In a recent news conference, Rep. John Murtha, a decorated war veteran and Democrat from Pennsylvania said "we cannot prevail in this war as it is going today."
http://abcnews.go.com/Sections/Nightline/


feign     
v. feigned, feign·ing, feigns
v. tr.
To give a false appearance of: feign sleep.

To represent falsely; pretend to: feign authorship of a novel.

To imitate so as to deceive: feign another's voice.

To fabricate: feigned an excuse.

Archaic. To invent or imagine.


v. intr.
To pretend; dissemble.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=feigning

[Tansy_Gold]

5. words often get messed up in transcripts

I suspect this is a transcript, and the word probably should be "fading."

[Wonk]

8. They couldn't decide between fading and waning, so they wrote

feigning? :shrug:

I think I like that meme, though.

"Supporters for * and the war in Iraq are feigning." :D

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Curse you

between the daily show and Nightline I will continue to loose sleep

It will reach the point where I will not be able to catch up

[RamboLiberal]

3. Right now they're doing a piece on all the stupid planning

And how Shinseki was right and showed clip of that fool Wolfie saying it would take far less.

Showing insurgents parading in Falluja as soon as Marines left today.

[scarletwoman]

4. "Mobilize more boots on the ground... I've always been for a draft..."

Oh yeah, great. Let's send more troops "so we can prevail". Prevail at WHAT?

All this talk about "winning" -- winning WHAT? What a bunch of bullshit!

(*sigh*)

sw

[scarletwoman]

6. Sheeesh! This guy is nothing but an old fart idiot blowhard.

"Mobilize more troops!" "We HAVE to mobilize!"

WTF is the mission anyway? What a farking bozo.

sw

[markses]

7. Murtha closes with: "If we don't get more troops, we're gonna lose this."

n/t

Or rather, yikes.