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It’s time that someone challenged John Murtha’s reckless lies. NOW.

It isn’t surprising that John Murtha is spewing the same lies as before several soldiers disgraced him in town hall meetings settings. What’s surprising is that he’s now upped the ante by calling Pete Pace, Chairman of the Join Chiefs, a liar.

SCHIEFFER: Congressman Murtha, thank you for coming this morning, and I want to start by quoting something that General Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said this morning on “Meet the Press.” He said he believes the war in Iraq is going, in his words, “very, very well.” What is your assessment?
Representative JACK MURTHA (D-PA; House Appropriations Committee): Why would I believe him? I mean, that administration, this administration, including the president, had mischaracterized this war for the last two years. They, first of all, they said it will take 40,000 troops to settle this thing right after the invasion. Then they said there’s no insurgency. They’re dead-enders is what the secretary of defense said. On and on and on, the mischaracterization of the war. They said there’s nuclear weapons. There are no nuclear weapons there. There are no biological weapons there. No al-Qaeda connection. So why would I believe the chairman of the joint chiefs when he says things are going well.

Why would Murtha believe Pete Pace? The better question is why would anyone trust anything that Murtha’s said about Iraq? This guy’s an idiot. This guy is the liar. The title of Gateway Pundit’s article is 9 Lies in 90 Seconds. Check out their account for documentation of Murtha’s lie-filled diatribe.

I’d love to see someone challenge Murtha to a debate on this issue. Someone like Jed Babbin, Austin Bay, Ralph Peters or Christopher Hitchens. I’d love seeing the moderator come prepared to challenge Murtha with followup questions. Someone like Chris Wallace would do nicely. Murtha wouldn’t appear in such a debate because he knows he’s the liar and those are men of serious credentials who would challenge his every talking point. Murtha knows that any of these men would tear his assertions apart within seconds. He knows that he’d be exposed. So let the exposing begin.

The truth is that this diatribe breaks new ground. In the past, Murtha challenged President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld. This time, he calls the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs a liar. Anyone thinking that this won’t inflame people in the military into voting against anyone allied with John Murtha is kidding themselves.

Democrats have lost the military vote badly the last 2 presidential elections as well as during the 2002 midterms. Any Democratic strategists who hoped that their candidate had a shot at picking off some military people just lost that shot. This plays into Republican hands. This interview should be turned into a commercial for next fall and for right now. It plays into the earned stereotype that Democrats not named Joe Lieberman hate the military.

Cross-post at LetFreedomRing

This entry was posted on Monday, March 6th, 2006 at 1:06 am and is filed under Author: Gary Gross, Iraq, Liberals, Military. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.