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Category: John Murtha

  • Fraud; the hallmark of Democrats

    We’ve all been watching, with our jaws on our chest, as the media and prosecutors and judges allow ACORN to subvert the US electoral system, but that’s hardly the end of it. If you were reading Atlas Shrugs yesterday, you learned of the incredible story of John Galt who is a phony donor who was able to donate to the Obama campaign dispite the fact that his personal information didn’t match his credit card – there’s proof at Pamela Geller’s place in the form of screen shots.

    That started a spate of internet sleuths trying their hand at committing election fraud. An Ace of Spades reader discovered he could do the same thing on John Murtha’s website. Oddly enough, the same maneuver didn’t work at Republican campaign sites. Funny how that works. And the media completely ignores it.

    If you listened to Blackfive’s Uncle Jimbo and Dave Bellavia on their “In the Crosshairs” show the other day, they breifly talked about the Faifax County VA registrar who is tossing about 200,000 military ballots on a technicality. For some reason, the registrar wouldn’t talk to Jimbo…I don’t know what that’s about. I heard about the story several days ago from that stellar blogger on all things Virginian, at The Dillard Doctrine (who goes by the handle D. when he’s commenting here).

    The gist of the story is this; The Virginia Senate in 2002 passed a law that required a witness signature and contact information on requests for an absentee ballot, but the current request for the absentee ballot doesn’t mention the requirement of even have a place for the information to be written…so the Democrat registrar (who’d probably bend himself into a pretzel for a felon trying to vote from prison) has decided that he’ll just toss the ballots instead of coming up with a fix (like emergency legislation).

    Like a child, the Democrat Party will get away with as much as they can get away with to steal this election just so the world will think better of us and the media is letting them get away with it, while they discuss Sarah Palin’s wardrobe expenses. Good call, “journalists”.

  • Murtha on the ropes (UPDATED & Bumped)

    The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is reporting this morning that fat, pasty scum-sucking pig John Murtha is leading William Russell by only 4 points (in a poll with a margin of error of 4.9).

    The poll of 400 likely voters was conducted for the Tribune-Review on Tuesday, amid uproar over Murtha’s statement that some of his constituents are racist.

    Well, actually he said almost all of his constituents are racist, then he said they’re only a bunch of dipshit rednecks who ain’t quite bright enough to vote for Obama. Apparently, they’re alot brighter than he thought…at least they can all read the newspaper and understand his demeaning comments were just as bad as Obama calling them bitter, God-clinging gun nuts.

    And, oh, yeah, Governor Rendell thinks Pennsylvanians are racist, too. read it here at Michelle Malkin. I thinks it’s a hoot that everyone is a racist except those Democrats in office in Pennsylvania.

    I had several email exchanges with William Russell a few months back and found him to be a very likable and bright guy, kind of the anti-Murtha. Here’s his latest ad entitled “King of Pork”;

    Yeah, I’m sure the Murtha campaign will call it an attack ad, but only because it hurts Murtha.

    Just last Friday Murtha felt comfortable enough to decide to cancel a debate with Russell…of course the media ignored this, just they ignored it when he canceled his debate with Dianne Irey two years ago. Luckily, Michelle Malkin reported it this time.

    I guess he’ll be smacking his forehead come November if Russell can keep up the pressure.

    UPDATED: Michelle Malkin writes that Russell now leads Murtha 48-35.

    Keep it up.

    The Russell Brigade needs all the help it can get.

    UPDATED AGAIN: The fact that this woman was alledgedly beaten, disfigured and robbed by a black man  in Pittsburgh for having a McCain sticker on her car couldn’t have anything to do with Murtha’s public claim that folks in that part of Pennsylvania are racists and/or rednecks, could it?

  • Combat tours cut

    The President today announced that because of the success of our troops in the Middle East, the enemy is on the run and the troops can count on shorter tours (Wall Street Journal link);

    President George W. Bush declared progress in the Iraq war Thursday, saying terrorists “are on the run” and a generally improved security environment should permit further U.S. troop reductions.

    Standing on the Colonnade outside the Oval Office of the White House, President Bush also announced that effective Thursday, the duration of troop tours in Iraq will be cut from 15 months to 12 months.

    Mr. Bush said this reduction “will relieve the burden on our forces and it will make life easier for our wonderful military families.”

    With no help from Democrats, with no help from the cutthroat back-stabbing sociopaths of the IVAW and Veterans For  Peace, no help from the drama queens at Code Pink, no help from the filthy hippies of ANSWER. With no help from Barack Obama, no help from Chuck Hagel. With no help from Harry Reid, no help from Nancy Pelosi. With no help from phony soldier John Murtha, no help from phony earthling Dennis Kucinich. No help from Jim Webb no help from Ron Paul..

    The troops and the President, all by themselves, did what nearly every media outlet said they couldn’t. Against the odds, against the pseudo-experts.

    They can all claim credit and change their stories from now until the cows come home, but the troops know who stood with them. And who didn’t.

  • Another Haditha Marine Acquitted

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    It’s no surprise, really. one after another, the Marines have been found innocent or the charges dropped. But here’s the latest story emailed to me by Rurik;

    U.S. military jury acquitted a Marine intelligence officer Wednesday of charges that he tried to help cover up the killings of 24 Iraqis.

    Cheers erupted as the seven-officer panel cleared 1st Lt. Andrew Grayson, who was the first of three Marines to be tried in the biggest U.S. criminal case involving Iraqi deaths linked to the war. The verdict came just five hours after deliberations began.

    So let’s recap the events over the last few years. In May, 2006 Congressman John Murtha says in an interview;

    …that sources within the military have told him that an internal investigation will show that “there was no firefight, there was no IED (improvised explosive device) that killed these innocent people. Our troops overreacted because of the pressure on them, and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood.”

    Then Steve Gilbert at Sweetness and Light discovers that Murtha was actually briefed AFTER he gave the interview.

    Asked about this in the interview, Murtha said the information came from Gen. Michael Hagee, the commandant of the Marine Corps, in a one-on-one conversation the day before Hagee made a trip to Iraq. Hagee did not use the term “in cold blood,” he added.

    Col. Dave Lapan, a Marine spokesman, disputed Murtha’s account.

    He said the commandant did brief Murtha about the Haditha incident. But he said that was on May 24, a week after Murtha made his public comment. The next day, May 25, Hagee left for Iraq, he said.

    So Murtha made the statement hoping for the results to follow his script – which is why many of the prosecuting lawyers in the case have reported unprecedented pressure to get convictions. Not just targeting the Marines on the scene, Murtha hoped to lasso in a whole bunch of uniformed people so he could blame it on the administration;

    “Who covered it up, why did they cover it up, why did they wait so long?” Murtha said on ABC’s “This Week.” “We don’t know how far it goes. It goes right up the chain of command.”

    Actually, fatboy, you didn’t even know if there was any crime at all, did you? Hence the pressure you applied to prosecutors. Now when I call Murtha’s office for a response, they just hang up immediately. I wonder why.

    Heh. Found this while I was researching the links here. You all know this guy confronting Murtha, you just don’t know that you know him. He comments here from time-to-time.

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  • Democrat wistful dreams vs. reality

    In an interview yesterday, General David Petraeus sketched the reality on the ground for the news media, as reported in the Wall Street Journal;

    Gen. David Petraeus, in an interview yesterday, cautioned that it was too soon to conclude that al Qaeda in Iraq, which has focused its attacks on Shiite Muslim targets, has been defeated. But he said the group had been weakened by a U.S. and Iraqi campaign to kill or detain its leaders and cut off its supplies of weapons and ammunition.

    “At some point there has to be a sign to the people that security is enabling the beginnings of a better life, which obviously garners their support for the security effort. I do think there has been a pretty substantial recognition among Sunni Arabs, in particular, that al Qaeda Iraq is not for them.”
    Another factor, he said, has been unexpected, “robust” measures by Syria to reduce the number of foreign militants crossing into Iraq to carry out suicide attacks. Gen. Petraeus estimated that the number of foreign fighters coming into Iraq through Syria has fallen by at least one-third.

    “Al Qaeda has been dealt substantial blows,” Gen. Petraeus said. “It certainly still remains dangerous…but it is a threat that has been diminished.”

    Despite these real and significant gains the Democrats are mired in their political morass (Wall Street Journal);

    Last week, the House agreed to provide $50 billion for the war, but also insisted Mr. Bush embrace the goal of ending combat operations in Iraq by the end of next year. On a 231-192 vote, Republicans failed to strip out these conditions, but Senate Republicans blocked the bill Friday.

    Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) and House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D., Wis.) sought to shift the blame to Senate Republicans. But hours after the Senate votes last week, influential House Democrats with large military bases in their states were already meeting privately with Tina Jonas, the Pentagon’s comptroller, to assess the problems ahead.

    “We’re going to have to do something in December to reconcile this, or else we have a real crisis,” a House Democrat said.

    The goal is to open a window to press for a change in policy, even if it means risking being criticized for capitulating later. To buy time, Mr. Murtha joined Mr. Obey at a Capitol news conference in which they appealed again for the administration to reach some compromise with Democrats. The weeks before Christmas will be decisive, and the important numbers to watch are the operations accounts for the Army and Marines, which bear the brunt of the fighting in Iraq as well as Afghanistan.

    So, to summarize, the Democrats, who promised bipartisanship before the November election last year, are holding up funding of combat operations in a war zone because they refuse to compromise. But what worries Democrats worse? (Washington Post);

    The Defense Department warned yesterday that as many as 200,000 contractors and civilian employees will begin receiving layoff warnings by Christmas unless Congress acts on President Bush’s $196 billion war request, but senior Democrats said no war funds will be approved until Bush accepts a shift in his Iraq policy.

    Not the troops who face the emboldened enemies of our country, but the civilian employees in their home districts. From the aforementioned WSJ story;

    But hours after the Senate votes last week, influential House Democrats with large military bases in their states were already meeting privately with Tina Jonas, the Pentagon’s comptroller, to assess the problems ahead.

    And, oh, yeah, Murtha wants a Job Corps program for terrorists;

    Mr. Murtha’s trip to Iraq includes meetings with U.S. commanders about a strategy to win over and provide future employment opportunities for Iraqi detainees held by the U.S.

    And even though he admits violence is down, Murtha won’t admit it’ll last very long – yet he wants our troops pulled out;

    He said there is “no question” the level of violence has fallen in Iraq but argues that the administration should do more to take advantage of “this lull” to improve the lot of Iraqi civilians and accelerate the departure of U.S. combat troops.

    Murtha doesn’t even understand the concept of military operations and their relationship to the political realities (S.A.Miller, Washington Times);

    “To change the political law, it doesn’t seem to me you need the military stability,” Mr. Murtha told reporters on Capitol Hill.

    So, I guess Murtha would’ve expected a new allied-installed German or Japanese government in 1944. Doofus. 

    There’s your “combat veteran”, Democrats. This is the guy you’re holding up as the voice of reason in Congress. Robin from Chickenhawk Express is still sifting through mounds of research on Murtha and the money that connects him to the Haditha incident. You can read her latest posts here and here.

  • An Exception to Every Rule.

    Once a Marine, always a Marine, or so the saying goes. Congressman Murtha is the exception to that rule. Marines have an awesome Esprit de Corps, they think there is nothing that they can’t do, just because they are Marines and you aren’t. They say “Gung Ho” and mean it, they are hard chargers.

    Jack Murtha, on the other hand is not, he isn’t a hard charger at all. Here he is AGAIN saying the US cannot win in Iraq militarily. “Look at all the people that have been displaced, all the [lost] oil production, unemployment, all those type of things,” said Rep. John P. Murtha, chairman of Appropriations defense subcommittee. “We can’t win militarily.” It is that old self-fulfilling prophecy thing again, no, you can’t win if you don’t try to, and it is clearly harder to win when the congressional “leaders” keep spouting off in the press that it is impossible for you to win.

    How is it, that in 2000 Al Gore and Company accused George W Bush of “Talking down the economy” and that was supposed to be some kind of horrific thing to do, but when Murtha and his congressional Dopes (er Doves) tell us the US military cannot win, that is not supposed to have any impact on the morale of the troops or the people of the US.

    The one thing Americans have always excelled at is exceeding the expectations of others. I am sure the court of King George III thought “They can’t beat us…” But, they did, and soundly. There were those who said man would never fly, but, the Wright brothers did that. Americans can do anything we set our minds to do, and no number of pantywaist ex-Marine congressmen will change that, no matter how much they try. But, he supports the troops! (Like a rubber crutch…)

  • Lazy Sunday Links

    I’m fighting off a cold or something and I’m not thinking straight so I’m going to let other people do my thinking for me today;

    Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs illustrates that 60s hippies never die in “You went there to kill children, you’re a baby killer”

    Robin at Chickenhawk Express tracks the money that links Murtha and the Haditha investigation here and here.

    Beth of Blue Star Chronicles’ son is still in Baghdad and Sergeant Grumpy just got there recently and is already dealing deadly blows to our enemie’s efforts.

    Michele Malkin has the admission (with audio) from Democrats that S-CHIP is the backdoor way t get universal healthcare past America while we blink.

    Gateway Pundit has a threatening and demeaning letter from Amahdinajad to M. Sarkozy.

    Wild Thing at PC Free Zone has the story on OPEC’s fear of a devalued dollar – they thought the camera was off. Speaking of oil, Junkyard Blog’s SeeDubya writes that Citgo is now funneling oil money to Chavez’ social programs.

    Crotchety Old Bastard answers his email for ANSWER.

    Babalu Blog’s Alberto de la Cruz reports on Chavez’ toe-dipping into extra-Venezuelan military operations.

    I’ll be back later if I can shake this thing.

  • Obey: War tax to end the war

    David Obey, the chair of the House Appropriations Committee has decided since the Democrats can’t get a draft started, they’ll charge Americans a tax to fan anti-war flames (Washington Times);

    Rep. David R. Obey, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, yesterday threatened unilaterally to block President Bush’s $189 billion emergency war-funding bill to force a U.S. pullout from Iraq and called for levying a surtax to cover the war’s costs.

    Mr. Obey, breaking with the Democratic leadership that has failed repeatedly to end the Iraq war, said unless Mr. Bush establishes a goal to abort combat operations in Iraq by January, he would act alone to cut off war spending.

    “Future generations should not be saddled with paying for an ill-advised war in Iraq that seems to be never-ending,” said the Wisconsin Democrat, who could use his powerful post to lock up the funding bill in committee. “If this war is important enough to fight, then it ought to be important enough to pay for.”

    The proposed income-tax surcharge — a progressive tax ranging from 2 percent to about 15 percent — would net $150 billion a year to cover the cost of the war in Iraq, said Mr. Obey.

    That’s the solution to every problem, I suppose – tax stuff you disagree with.

    Mr. Obey’s proposals did not target the war in Afghanistan, which he said was a justifiable war because the Taliban supported al Qaeda before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack.

    “It is to draw a meaningful line in the sand,” said Rep. Jim McGovern, Massachusetts Democrat and an outspoken war critic. Mr. McGovern and Rep. John P. Murtha, Pennsylvania Democrat, were at Mr. Obey’s side when he announced the surtax plan.

    Yep, the war in Afghanistan is justifiable as long as you look at the war as pure revenge (an emotional response, not a rational response) instead of considering the fact that those 19,000 jihadists we’ve killed in Iraq could’ve been running all over the planet blowing themselves up along with innocent people. But the Democrats can’t just get past the fact that war is not a legal action – it’s a defensive action. All war has a preemptive nature.

    The Wall Street Journal’s David Rogers writes;

    House rules permit Republicans and prowar Democrats to try to go around Mr. Obey and force action on spending. But the chairman’s stand, blessed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.), represents a significant escalation of the conflict with the administration.

    It came as moderates in the war debate enjoyed a rare triumph on the House floor. By 377-46, members approved requiring the Pentagon to report regularly to Congress on the status of planning for the redeployment of troops from Iraq.

    Supporters argued it was a first step to end partisan sniping, but many House Democrats remain frustrated by the pace of change in Iraq policy.

    In the past, they have approved Iraq funding with restrictions, only to see these amendments watered down in the Senate because of White House veto threats and Republican filibusters. Ms. Pelosi doesn’t hide her impatience: “We can’t go as slow as that ship” she said of the Senate last week.

    Mr. Obey gives her more leverage. Choosing not to move legislation is “our strongest card at this point,” he said.

    So, not surprisingly, Murtha (Mr. Pink Badge of Courage) and Pelosi are behind this latest end run around the Administration’s honest attempts at winning this war in our favor – as opposed to the Democrats who want to lose this war so they can win the presidency next year. All of this despite the fact that the war in Iraq is being won (as reported by Gateway Pundit and Bill Roggio and Bill Roggio again)

    So why would Democrats try these end runs around the administration? Because it’s their last chance to make splash – it’s their last chance to look like they’ve done something in this war against terror – even though it helps the terrorists. Just to stroke their critics on the extreme left wing.

    Democrats’ spinlessness gives hope to every jihadist in the world – especially those arrayed against our troops in Iraq. I’m sure Pelosi, et al. hope to spark courage in the Mahdi Army again so Democrats can point and call it a civil war – since it hasn’t been a civil war for months and the Iraqis are helping US forces to drive al Qaeda out.