Murtha's House Speech

See video footage of John Murtha's speech on the House floor:

Murtha's House Speech

It is a really good speech, very geniune and sincere. Rep. Murtha has long been a big supporter of the military, and military spending, throughout his entire career in the Congress. So, unfortunately for the Fox News types, they cannot slam him by casting him off as just another Ted Kennedy/Michael Moore type, or whoever it is that they're comparing their enemies to these days. This guy is the real deal. Plus, he has the service record to back it up. Unlike, of course, the screaming Jean Schmidts (who won her seat barely by defeating a veteran of the very war she wants to continue) of Congress. He has always supported the military and the war on terror, but if this war has any connection to the war on terror, that is the doing of the President first and foremost. Murtha's concerns with the war have been growing for some time. Given the current state of it, he believes it is not merely unwinnable, but it is more dangerous to keep our troops there than to remove them. Whether you agree with him or not, it is unfortunate that Murtha's resolution asking for a redeployment of troops 'at the earliest practical date' (his language) was bastardized with a BS resolution in a stunt (as I stated this morning) I believe was meant to embarrass and discredit him. Unfortunately for the Republicans, I don't think it worked. If they wanted to debate Murtha, they should've debated his resolution instead of creating their own to pick a fight. They did not win this round. And so we move on.

Whatever the immediate outcome, I hope the debate over the war will continue.