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Murtha on Iraq: 'a failed policy wrapped in illusion'

Posted by David DeGraw at 3:21 PM on September 5, 2006.


John Murtha responds to Bush's latest war speech: "We can't win this militarily. It has to be done diplomatically. We need a change of direction. We need accountability."
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Pennsylvania Congressman John Murtha was on his game in the video clip to the right -->>

He appeared on CNN to respond to Bush's latest war speech and countered Bush's talking points with some points of his own:

"This is a failed policy wrapped in illusion… We can't win this militarily… It has to be done diplomatically.. We need a change of direction... We need accountability….
I've been all through the country… There is a sentiment out there, an intensity that I haven't seen since Watergate."
As for Donald Rumsfeld's recent comments comparing people who want to withdraw from Iraq to Nazi appeasers, Murtha says that he is just trying to scare people and then quotes Franklin Roosevelt's famous line, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

Toward the end of this clip Murtha seems to suggest that if we don't pull out of Iraq, we will have to start drafting people. His exact quote is: "We also need to spread out the service so that everybody in this country has an opportunity to serve." This is mentioned in passing and the CNN anchor quickly changes the topic, but it leaves us wondering what Murtha's stance is on a military draft.

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I think he tells us what he thinks...
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Posted by: orangegearle on Sep 5, 2006 6:47 PM   
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....here.

"Two years ago, I was one of only two in the House of Representatives who voted for a draft, because I believe if we are a country truly at war, the burden should be shared proportionately and fairly. So Mr. President, you have two options, either change the course in Iraq and reduce the burden on our overstretched active force or reinstitute the draft. We cannot sustain the current course."
--Rep. John Murtha Tue Sep 5, 1:37 PM ET

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Murtha is both right and wrong...
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Posted by: Plenum on Sep 6, 2006 7:05 AM   
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A draft won't work. Too many young people know this is another corrupt, illegal, unjustifiable, and immoral war. Moreover, a draft would fail because the general US public, polls show, no longer supports this war nor the morally decrepit person we are forced to call our 'president'.

Murtha is right to 'democratize' the responsibility to fight, to reinstate the draft - and I fully agree that that would be fair - but the public, particularly the young would not serve for the reasons above, and would initiate, what... domestic conflict? A civil war within the US? I think sporadic violence is at least likely, well beyond what little happened in the 60's-70's with Vietnam, and they would rather not fuck with that potential time-bomb at the present time. They do not risk civil strife and if so, risk losing the potential to dominate the world. (I served USN, 76-80, and I could have done better, btw.)

The veneer of their lies are much too shallow. The war was initiated too early, Mr. bush... Another five to ten years and a much better reason than Saddam would have served better.

But, if conflict and unrest is what they want, where opportunity lies, then they are doing quite well, domestically as well as overseas. Recommended video:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4068.htm
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And, off topic: Don't be suprised if the OCTOBER SUPRISE may be a false-flag operation in which approaches the SINKING of an AIRCRAFT CARRIER in which Iran is blamed... which leads directly to war.

Something in that order, not just an aviation incident. Iran MUST be blamed. The Iranian bomb-making capability is too far too benign to positively affect the elections for the neo-Cons, and with far too many intermediaries EU, Russia, China, UN, etc. They tried to implicate Iran into the Lebanon conflict. That didn't work. Expect something worse, but don't let it affect your vote.

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