#507122 - 02-08-10 03:03 PM
Representative Murtha RIP
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John Murtha has died at the age of 77. Rest in peace, Warrior.
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#507123 - 02-08-10 03:04 PM
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Godspeed Congressman, Godspeed
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#507125 - 02-08-10 03:04 PM
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Goodbye schmuck.
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#507133 - 02-08-10 03:19 PM
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RIP John....I didnt agree with his politics but may he rest in peace
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#507138 - 02-08-10 03:27 PM
Re: Representative Murtha RIP
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Catz
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He was one of the dirtiest pols going.
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#507140 - 02-08-10 03:28 PM
Re: Representative Murtha RIP
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Catzie, he's someones dad, someones brother, etc.,
show a little class man........
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#507144 - 02-08-10 03:31 PM
Re: Representative Murtha RIP
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I feel sorry for the family, but never for him.
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#507146 - 02-08-10 03:33 PM
Re: Representative Murtha RIP
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Class isn't in Catz' DNA, dade.
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#507152 - 02-08-10 03:36 PM
Re: Representative Murtha RIP
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Even if you don't feel it, you have to mouth the correct words. It doesn't hurt or cost anything.
Condolences to the family.
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#507170 - 02-08-10 03:54 PM
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No you don't have to "mouth the correct words" Rocker. Just don't say anything like I did with Reagan's and Strom Thurmond's deaths. If you can't say something good about the deceased don't say anything. But with Catz you are dealing with pond scum, nothing unusual.
As a fellow vet I hope Mr. Murtha has found peace.
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#507190 - 02-08-10 04:30 PM
Re: Representative Murtha RIP
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OhMy
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Didn't his last years consist of vicious attacks from the rightwingers?
Can't hurt him anymore. Looks like you're going to have to find a new target. Maybe you could go after a quadriplegic veteran?
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#507194 - 02-08-10 04:33 PM
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I think his death be used as a teaching moment for any novice Congressman out there.
To every such person I say the following :
"Please don't let the power of the office corrupt you.
Do not let the lure of re-election throughly corrupt you .
Remember, you are supposed to represent the people with honesty.
Sadly, John Murtha, for whatever reasons unbeknownst to us all, couldn't do it.
But you can!
Thank You.
Partiotically yours, PL
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#507195 - 02-08-10 04:33 PM
Re: Representative Murtha RIP
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What was he ever charged with, or convicted of, or is this just more Bullshit rhetoric
That's what I thought, More Bullshit rhetoric
Classy folks dont' speak badly of the dead, You obviously dont' meet that level.......
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#507196 - 02-08-10 04:35 PM
Re: Representative Murtha RIP
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I think his death be used as a teaching moment for any novice Congressman out there.
To every such person I say the following :
"Please don't let the power of the office corrupt you.
Do not let the lure of re-election throughly corrupt you .
Remember, you are supposed to represent the people with honesty.
Sadly, John Murtha, for whatever reasons unbeknownst to us all, couldn't do it.
But you can!
Thank You.
Partiotically yours, PL
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But only if you're a democrat, eh Nixonite?
You're an idiot. There are no ethical people in Washington, DC. And even if there were, you would never recognize them.
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#507197 - 02-08-10 04:37 PM
Re: Representative Murtha RIP
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I think his death be used as a teaching moment for any novice Congressman out there.
To every such person I say the following :
"Please don't let the power of the office corrupt you.
Do not let the lure of re-election throughly corrupt you .
Remember, you are supposed to represent the people with honesty.
Sadly, John Murtha, for whatever reasons unbeknownst to us all, couldn't do it.
But you can!
Thank You.
Partiotically yours, PL
" But only if you're a democrat, eh Nixonite? You're an idiot. There are no ethical people in Washington, DC. .
Not any more!! 
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#507200 - 02-08-10 04:40 PM
Re: Representative Murtha RIP
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So Washington has become more ethical now that Bush and Cheney have left, we would agree..........
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#507201 - 02-08-10 04:52 PM
Re: Representative Murtha RIP
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Well, I wouldn't say ethical.
But at least he has stacked hisadministration with supply-siders who so fervently believe in the power of lower taxation that they patriotically supported the notion through civil disobedience!!!
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#507203 - 02-08-10 05:16 PM
Re: Representative Murtha RIP
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After what should've been routine gallbladder surgery -- his family probably is very shocked by this.
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#507204 - 02-08-10 05:18 PM
Re: Representative Murtha RIP
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I'm sure.........
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#507213 - 02-08-10 06:52 PM
Re: Representative Murtha RIP
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What separates John Murtha from KKKitty and all other republicans. "Although Murtha formally left the Marines in 1955. He remained in the Reserves after his discharge from active duty until he volunteered for service in the Vietnam War, serving from 1966 to 1967, serving as a battalion staff officer (S-2 Intelligence Section), receiving the Bronze Star with Valor device, two Purple Hearts and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. He retired from the Marine Corps Reserve as a Colonel in 1990, receiving the Navy Distinguished Service Medal."
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A great man, a warrior, and very unrepublican like.
RIP
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#507215 - 02-08-10 09:00 PM
Re: Representative Murtha RIP
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It seems like all the dem patriarch heavyweights are passing on recently.
Hopefully this is a promotion for Mr Murtha.
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#507221 - 02-08-10 09:33 PM
Re: Representative Murtha RIP
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I feel sorry for the family, but never for him.
So you'll understand when someone shits on Cheney's grave, right?
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#507222 - 02-08-10 09:33 PM
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I think his death be used as a teaching moment for any novice Congressman out there.
To every such person I say the following :
"Please don't let the power of the office corrupt you.
Do not let the lure of re-election throughly corrupt you .
Remember, you are supposed to represent the people with honesty.
Sadly, John Murtha, for whatever reasons unbeknownst to us all, couldn't do it.
But you can!
Thank You.
Partiotically yours, PL
" But only if you're a democrat, eh Nixonite? You're an idiot. There are no ethical people in Washington, DC. . Not any more!!
Wow. You're retarded.
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#507224 - 02-08-10 09:36 PM
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I feel sorry for the family, but never for him.
Funny how "patriotic" right wing nuts hate actual war heroes so much.
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#507225 - 02-08-10 09:36 PM
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I feel sorry for the family, but never for him. Funny how "patriotic" right wing nuts hate actual war heroes so much.
It's Catz. He's always hated the troops.
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#507228 - 02-08-10 10:30 PM
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Just like KKKitty hates the Teamsters....the very people that made it possible for an idiot like him to make a good living wage.
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#507304 - 02-09-10 09:45 AM
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A Major earmark scandal, with Jack Murtha at its center, is brewing. Jonathan Allen and Alex Knott for CQ:
More than 100 House members secured earmarks in a major spending bill for clients of a single lobbying firm — The PMA Group — known for its close ties to John P. Murtha , the congressman in charge of Pentagon appropriations.
“It shows you how good they were,” said Keith Ashdown, chief investigator at the watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense. “The sheer coordination of that would take an army to finish.”
PMA’s offices have been raided, and the firm closed its political action committee last week amid reports that the FBI is investigating possibly illegal campaign contributions to Murtha and other lawmakers
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/murtha_earmark_scandal/
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#507306 - 02-09-10 09:59 AM
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What separates John Murtha from KKKitty and all other republicans. "Although Murtha formally left the Marines in 1955. He remained in the Reserves after his discharge from active duty until he volunteered for service in the Vietnam War, serving from 1966 to 1967, serving as a battalion staff officer (S-2 Intelligence Section), receiving the Bronze Star with Valor device, two Purple Hearts and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. He retired from the Marine Corps Reserve as a Colonel in 1990, receiving the Navy Distinguished Service Medal."
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A great man, a warrior, and very unrepublican like.
RIP
Sure, but compare that Jr's and Dick's record during Vietna....oh wait, never mind.
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#507310 - 02-09-10 10:25 AM
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A Major earmark scandal, with Jack Murtha at its center, is brewing. Jonathan Allen and Alex Knott for CQ: More than 100 House members secured earmarks in a major spending bill for clients of a single lobbying firm � The PMA Group � known for its close ties to John P. Murtha , the congressman in charge of Pentagon appropriations. �It shows you how good they were,� said Keith Ashdown, chief investigator at the watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense. �The sheer coordination of that would take an army to finish.� PMA�s offices have been raided, and the firm closed its political action committee last week amid reports that the FBI is investigating possibly illegal campaign contributions to Murtha and other lawmakers http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/murtha_earmark_scandal/
He was cleared of that last year Sir......
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#507316 - 02-09-10 10:43 AM
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OhMy
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Yeah, that's a year old. I guess their percolator's broke.
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#507318 - 02-09-10 10:46 AM
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They didn't expect him to pass, they needed the message machine to perk up to sully the dead, miscreants that they are......
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#507319 - 02-09-10 10:48 AM
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Yeah, we miss both of them, like the last hemoriod lancing or the last kidney stone.
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#507323 - 02-09-10 10:52 AM
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I feel sorry for the family, but never for him. So you'll understand when someone shits on Cheney's grave, right?
I've been waiting to take that dump for at least a decade.
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#507347 - 02-09-10 11:17 AM
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The editor of Redstate.com, such a classy guy
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#507349 - 02-09-10 11:17 AM
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#507363 - 02-09-10 11:31 AM
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The editor of Redstate.com, such a classy guy
ASHES TO ASHES
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#508423 - 02-12-10 02:34 PM
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Michelle" the fox" Malkin's scathing but unflinchingly honest eulogy...
We are not supposed to speak ill of the dead. But those whom the deceased viciously smeared and humiliated deserve to be defended. Entrenched Democratic Rep. John Murtha passed away on Feb. 8 after a botched gallbladder surgery. He has been hailed as a "military advocate" (Associated Press) and "one of the greatest patriots ever to serve in Congress" (former Democratic Rep. Harold Ford Jr.). These obsequious obituaries leave out inconvenient truths:
John "Jack" Murtha was an unrepentant smear merchant and corruptocrat to the bitter end.
In May 2006, during an MSNBC TV show appearance that Marines and their families will never forget or forgive, Murtha accused U.S. troops of wantonly killing some two dozen civilians, including children, in the terrorist stronghold of Haditha, Iraq. Bellowed Murtha: "Our troops overreacted because of the pressure on them, and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood." Murtha publicly indicted the Marines before military investigations had been completed. His remarks opened military-bashing floodgates around the world.
In the wake of Murtha's reckless blabbing, MSNBC executioner Keith Olbermann accused the Haditha Marines of "willful targeted brutality." The Nation magazine claimed that "members of the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment perpetrated a massacre." The New York Times dubbed Haditha the "defining atrocity" of the Iraq war. International papers piled on with Vietnam-era "My Lai" allusions. Murtha cold-bloodedly sat back and enjoyed the ride while the Marines were left twisting in the wind.
By 2008, seven of the Marines charged in the incident had been exonerated or had charges against them dropped. Lt. Andrew Grayson was acquitted. Lance Cpl. Stephen Tatum, Capt. Lucas McConnell, Lance Cpl. Justin Sharratt, Sgt. Sanick Dela Cruz and Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani all had their cases dismissed. Sgt. Frank Wuterich, the last of the Marines facing charges, awaits a long, dragged-out trial this year.
Murtha, the so-called "military advocate," went to his deathbed refusing to apologize or retract the attacks on the Haditha Marines (several of whom unsuccessfully sued him for libel to restore their honor). Decent people would call this intransigent treachery. Murtha's friends apparently consider it great patriotism.
The ego-bloated, big-mouthed lawmaker treated his own constituents with trademark contempt. During his last congressional campaign, he mocked voters in his district as bigots. "There's no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area," he told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Responding to mounting criticism on both sides of the aisle about his logrolling orgies on the Hill, he sniffed: "If I'm corrupt, it's because I take care of my district."
First, foremost and forever, Jack Murtha took care of Jack Murtha. The glowing encomiums from his liberal colleagues have glossed over the 19-term Democrat's defining moment of political self-service. In 1980, Murtha was an unindicted co-conspirator in a massive bribery probe -- in which undercover FBI agents videotaped Murtha entertaining a $50,000 bribe from agents posing as emissaries for Arab sheiks trying to enter our country illegally. From transcripts of those conversations published by the late newspaper columnist Jack Anderson, Murtha's true colors shined:
"I want to deal with you guys awhile before I make any transactions at all, period. … After we've done some business, well, then I might change my mind. …"
"I'm going to tell you this. If anybody can do it -- I'm not B.S.-ing you fellows -- I can get it done my way," he boasted. "There's no question about it."
Murtha worried not about his integrity or how his constituents might be harmed, but about getting ratted out:
"All at once," he said, "some dumb (expletive deleted) would go start talking eight years from now about this whole thing and say (expletive deleted), this happened. Then in order to get immunity so he doesn't go to jail, he starts talking and fingering people. So the (S.O.B.) falls apart."
"You give us the banks where you want the money deposited," offered one of the bagmen.
"All right," agreed Murtha. "How much money we talking about?"
"Well, you tell me."
{DADEMZ: "SO"?}
By the time of his death, Murtha had been caught intervening on behalf of a law-breaking Pennsylvania company convicted of selling military equipment parts illegally overseas; had steered unprecedented billions in federal earmarks to friends, family and donors; had earned multiple "most corrupt in Congress" designations from both the left-leaning Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the right-leaning Judicial Watch; and had remained intimately tied to PMA Group, a former lobbying firm under federal investigation, and Kuchera Industries, a defense contractor also under federal investigation.
From his character assassination of innocents to his insatiable appetite for pork and power, Jack Murtha embodied everything that is wrong with Washington. If only the culture of corruption he serviced could be buried six feet under with him
Edited by ProudLiberal (02-12-10 02:35 PM)
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#508753 - 02-13-10 03:03 PM
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In the wake of Murtha's reckless blabbing, MSNBC executioner Keith Olbermann accused the Haditha Marines of "willful targeted brutality." The Nation magazine claimed that "members of the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment perpetrated a massacre." The New York Times dubbed Haditha the "defining atrocity" of the Iraq war. International papers piled on with Vietnam-era "My Lai" allusions. Murtha cold-bloodedly sat back and enjoyed the ride while the Marines were left twisting in the wind.
By 2008, seven of the Marines charged in the incident had been exonerated or had charges against them dropped. Lt. Andrew Grayson was acquitted. Lance Cpl. Stephen Tatum, Capt. Lucas McConnell, Lance Cpl. Justin Sharratt, Sgt. Sanick Dela Cruz and Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani all had their cases dismissed. Sgt. Frank Wuterich, the last of the Marines facing charges, awaits a long, dragged-out trial this year.
Murtha, the so-called "military advocate," went to his deathbed refusing to apologize or retract the attacks on the Haditha Marines (several of whom unsuccessfully sued him for libel to restore their honor). Decent people would call this intransigent treachery. Murtha's friends apparently consider it great patriotism.
This was written by Michelle Malkin and should have been in that fat bastards obit.
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#508755 - 02-13-10 03:06 PM
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I agree with Jack Murtha on Haditha.
He didn't like losing wars with us doing war crimes any better than I do.
That "exoneration" was the Army whitewashing everything they possibly can, as they always do.
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#508759 - 02-13-10 03:09 PM
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Catz
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Murtha crrucified those marines without any evidence. There is no excuse for that, period.
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#508763 - 02-13-10 03:14 PM
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Well before Murtha said anything at all about it a lot of people including me realized it was a war atrocity those Marines did. One of their own got killed by an IED so they went into these little stone hovels nearby and shot all the babies and toddlers and their mommies.
There was no military reason to do this war crime. They shot women and babies, just to be mean. In a just world they would all be in prison right now.
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#508765 - 02-13-10 03:15 PM
Re: Representative Murtha RIP
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Baba O'Riley
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There were something like 25 officers and soldiers charged with the My Lai incident. Only one, a lowly Lt. named Calley, was convicted. Interesting, a Major named Colin Powell was charged with leading the investigation and many claim he whitewashed the incident. Anyway, if you believe only Calley was guilty in this incident I have a very nice bridge I would like to sell you. The army does whitewash these incidents and I am sure Murtha knew that when he made that statement.
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#508766 - 02-13-10 03:16 PM
Re: Representative Murtha RIP
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Catz
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The military gave them trials and they were found innocent.
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#508768 - 02-13-10 03:26 PM
Re: Representative Murtha RIP
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Phebe
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The Army whitewashes absolutely everything it can, because they don't want soldiers afraid to kill people, any people.
Same deal with Abu Ghraib. In the end they only charged some of the lowest level people, that Cumberland group. The orders to torture people wholesale came from the very top, probably from the VERY top, but we KNOW from Rumsfeld and all the Pentagon and field generals, Miller and Sanchez, and straight down the chain of command all the way, and though most of them were ....retired soon, nobody ever got charged except the privates and that sergeant.
The Army whitewashes every atrocity our soldiers do, and I admire Jack Murtha tremendously for holding to real, true values and honor.
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#508771 - 02-13-10 03:35 PM
Re: Representative Murtha RIP
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Catz
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On this we disagree.
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#509363 - 02-15-10 12:21 PM
Re: Representative Murtha RIP
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Patricia
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They've been praying for Obama's death but they'll take all they can get.
dailybeast
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With the death of Democratic Congressman John Murtha after gallbladder surgery last week, Drake declared that God had again listened to his imprecatory prayers. Drake’s Presidents’ Day weekend prayer hit-list reproduced Judicial Watch’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” list for 2009, without attribution and aiming for something well beyond indictment. The list includes Senator Chris Dodd, Senator John Ensign, Representative Barney Frank, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Attorney General Eric Holder, Nancy Pelosi and, of course, President Obama. “We have listed here only a few of those that we are praying for,” wrote Wiley, “first for their salvation in Jesus, and if they continue to deny God and do unrighteous things to our country we then agree with God that He take them out.” “Take them out”—not words usually attributed to the Bible.
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#509367 - 02-15-10 12:24 PM
Re: Representative Murtha RIP
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Phebe
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I agree with his list....................pretty good list!
However, praying that God take them out is going rather far. (I note he didn't say "take them home," probably assuming they'll go to The Bad Place.)
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#509386 - 02-15-10 01:16 PM
Re: Representative Murtha RIP
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Patricia
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I wonder if these bozos ever pray that Osama and other terrorists are "taken out" instead of their fellow American citizens. Probably not because they want more attacks. It fits their agenda.
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#509425 - 02-15-10 02:05 PM
Re: Representative Murtha RIP
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nessus
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It seems to me that comments such as we've seen here and from Malkin and Howe, et. al., say much more about the commentors than they say about Murtha, who had more than his fair share of flaws. He was, however, a veteran who served his country with distinction in uniform and who served in the Congress of the United States for 19 terms. Those who have minds like grocers - they weigh everything - many not think that his support of the US military and of veterans and their families was worth a mention at his passing, but the VFW does. So, go figure.
Speaking personally, I wouldn't sacrifice my own dignity just so I could gratuitously and personally insult a dead man.
Others apparently hold their own dignity in far less esteem.
Well, they're entitled, I says says I. I always appreciate the heads up I get from such ilk.
As certainly as is the case with John P. Murtha, by your words shall you be known.
Edited by nessus (02-15-10 02:18 PM)
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#509427 - 02-15-10 02:07 PM
Re: Representative Murtha RIP
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Phebe
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Hey, nessus.
Stick around.
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