
The douchebag above is the Honorable Donald C. Winter. This idiot is the Secretary of the Navy and he has decided for God only knows what reason to give the Navy’s highest non-employee civilian award to the biggest jackass in Washington.
And more importantly; THE BIGGEST DISCRACE TO THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS IN THE HISTORY OF THIS NATION!!!!!!!!
On March 5, 2009 Congressman John Murtha was awarded the Department of the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award by the Secretary of the Navy, Donald C. Winter. From the press release: It is the highest form of public service recognition bestowed by the Department of the Navy for a non-employee. According to the Department, nominations for this award will be limited to those extraordinary cases where individuals have demonstrated exceptionally outstanding service of substantial and long term benefit to the Navy, Marine Corps, or as Department of the Navy as a whole.
If that didn’t make your head explode, read the citation on the award:
The Citation reads:
Congressman Murtha’s selfless devotion to the Nation’s Sailors and Marines ensured they were provided the resources necessary to effectively conduct the Global War on Terrorism. His courageous leadership, vision, and loyalty to the men and women of the Department of the Navy greatly contributed to their quality of life and helped create the most modern and highly trained fighting force in history. As Chairman of Subcommittee on Defense of the House Appropriations Committee, Congressman Murtha’s tireless advocacy helped maintain the Navy and Marine Corps team at the highest levels of combat readiness to meet the challenges of the 21st century. With grateful appreciation for his outstanding contributions to the Nation and the Navy and Marine Corps, Congressman Murtha is awarded the Department of the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award.
I know that this about kissing Murtha’s fat ass to get money for the next big Navy project but my God man, do you have to dance on the graves of brave men and women to do it?
The senile old POS Murtha has not released a statement about this but he has said many things before:
“It [Haditha, Marines] is as bad as Abu Ghraib, if not worse.”
(Murtha, May 2006)
“They [the Marines/Military] knew the day after this happened that it was not as they portrayed it. They knew that they (marines) went into the rooms, they killed the people in the taxi. There was no firing at all. And this comes from the highest authority in the Marine Corps, so there’s no question in my mind,”
(Murtha, May 2006)
“… they [Marine] killed innocent civilians in cold blood.”
(Murtha, May 17, 2006 at news conference)
“There was no firefight. There was no IED that killed these innocent people. Our troops overreacted because of the pressure on them, and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood”
(Murtha, May 19, 2006)
“They actually went into the houses and killed women and children. And there was about twice as many as originally reported by Times.”
(Murtha, Reuters, May 19, 2006)
“Our troops over-reacted because of the pressure on them, and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood.”
(Murtha, ARAB WORLD NEWS, May 19, 2006)
“It’s [Haditha, Marines] much worse than reported in Time magazine.”
(Murtha, News.comAU, May 18, 2006)
BLITZER: The marines say they’re still investigating. They don’t know what happened yet. The pentagon says the same thing. How do you know what happened?
MURTHA: Wolf, you read the “Time” magazine articles. There are pictures, there are photos. You don’t have to talk to the military about the proof.
(Murtha, on CNN/Wolf Blitzer, May 19, 2006… transcript)
”We can go to Okinawa. . . . We can redeploy there almost instantly.”
(Murtha, June 11, 2006, Meet The Press)
“We can’t win this.”
(Rep. John Murtha, Congressional Record, June 15, 2006, p. H4028)
“We are causing the problem.”
Rep.John Murtha, Congressional Record, June 15, 2006, p. H4028)
Gunnery Sgt Doyle has a petition to sign at his site but I can’t get it to open and apparently others have had problems with it.
So, here is a major plea to everyone in the “This Ain’t Hell” nation. Please try to sign his petition, if you can’t open it drop your comments here. I’ll make sure he gets them.
This is an abomination and must not stand!
Why am I so animated about a douche spitting in the eye of every Marine?
SGT Hook posted about it in December of 2006:
Marine Lance Corporal Thomas Echols of Shepherdsville, Ky, made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom on Monday, December 4, 2006 while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. He was assigned to 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
LCPL Echols was COB’s son Josh’s best friend all through high school. They each followed family traditions in joining the military and though Josh was in the Army and Tom in the Marines, they both ended up in Iraq at the same time.
They both recently returned home, Josh will be attending Tom, LCPL Echols’ funeral this week.
I’ll see you Fiddler’s Green Marine. Semper Fi. Sgt Hook out.