{"id":17313,"date":"2010-02-08T14:43:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T19:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=17313"},"modified":"2010-02-08T15:57:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T20:57:48","slug":"murtha-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17313","title":{"rendered":"Murtha dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox announces John Murtha is dead at 77 years old. Links to be added as available.<\/p>\n

Wikipedia marks death<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fox reports Murtha’s death<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Blast from the past;<\/p>\n

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John Murtha, Hero of the War Protesters<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Gruff, jowly John Murtha wouldn’t seem to be a Code Pink kinda guy, what with his appetite for pork and his pro-gun, antiabortion Marine hero bona fides.<\/p>\n

But there the congressman was, in a Rayburn House Office Building hallway, gallantly protecting some war protesters from the group who had been tossed out of a hearing room and threatened with arrest.<\/p>\n

“He said ‘I know these people,’ he gave me his hand and said we wouldn’t be arrested,” said Medea Benjamin, a San Francisco human rights activist who was doing her earnest best Tuesday to end the war when her lobbying methods provoked the displeasure of the U.S. Capitol Police. Code Pink ladies on one side; uniforms on the other. In the middle, the impressive bulk of 74-year-old Murtha. He called the sergeant at arms and didn’t leave until he was assured the women would be released, Benjamin said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Code Pink Praises Murtha, Picketed Military Hospital<\/a><\/p>\n

Code Pink’s co-founder, Gael Murphy, and its coordinator for the Washington, D.C., area, Allison Yorra, met with Murtha earlier this month “to thank him for his courageous stand on Iraq.<\/p>\n

“We presented him with our pink badge of courage and pink flowers sent by CODEPINK members nationwide,” a statement on the group’s website indicates. “Rep Murtha was very appreciative of these gestures as he has been receiving many responses to his public denouncement of the war.”<\/p>\n

Photographs on the Code Pink website show Murtha holding the pink flowers and standing arm-in-arm with Murphy and Yorra. There is no mention of the meeting with Code Pink or the award presented to Murtha on his congressional website.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

John Murtha press conference;<\/p>\n

Now, two days after I made my statement, on November 19th, we had an incident in Haditha in Anbar province, where a Marine was killed with an IED. Time magazine reported it, and it’s kind of a puzzling report, because they’re investigating it right now. Let me tell you what the consequences of this have been.<\/p>\n

It’s much worse than reported in Time magazine. There was no fire fight. 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.<\/strong> And that’s what the report is going to tell. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

John Murtha in an interview with Chris Matthews;<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: Mr. Murtha, let me ask you about this accusation that you have come out with today, that U.S. service people fighting in Iraq killed civilians in cold blood. What evidence do you have on that now?<\/p>\n

MURTHA: Well, “Time Magazine” …<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: Was this melee? I mean, was this a case of — when you say cold blood, Congressman, a lot of people think you’re basically saying you have got some civilians sitting in a room or out in a field and they’re executed just on purpose…<\/p>\n

MURTHA: That’s exactly what happened.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

John Murtha in an interview with Wolf Blitzer;<\/p>\n

BLITZER: There’s an investigation of what happened at Haditha. …you’ve suggested this week that there in effect was a massacre. \u2026<\/p>\n

MURTHA: Well there was. There’s no question about it…<\/p>\n

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?<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Article from Washington Post<\/a> referring to the arrest of four Marines;<\/p>\n

Attention to the case increased earlier this year when Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) alleged after briefings from military officials that the Marines had killed civilians “in cold blood.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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