cut VA hospital funding

Liberal lie.

I figured your keys would be blazing at me trying to shore up your contention that the troops in PA *support* Congressman Murtha.

Maybe they should give the soldiers a rundown of Murtha’s last few months of statements and then poll the PA Troops on their opinions. Now THAT would be a poll I’d like to see. (Of course, you could just go to the milblogs to read what most in the military think of Congressman Murtha and his ideas and opinions.)

We have a dead Zarqawi, and the current rumor is that his replacement was directly responsible for the beheading of Kristian Manchaca and Thomas Tucker.

This is success? At best, you have a wash.

The evidence is all around: Republicans are already distancing themselves from Bush, and it won’t be long before they’re running from Iraq, too (only blaming it on “librul trayters.”)

keep doing the same thing and get the same failing results.

Elections, a new government, and a dead Zarqawi is failure? What, then is success?

You mean like the complete domination by the GOP of all branches of government for the last 6 years?

No wonder I have a hard time understanding liberal!

Doubts about Iraq have surfaced in the region. A Quinnipiac University Poll released Wednesday found that 25 percent in southwest Pennsylvania said all troops should be withdrawn from Iraq, while 38 percent in Pittsburgh and its surrounding suburbs said they should all be withdrawn.”

25%? 38% in the city? Yep- pretty inconvenient.

And boy this is pretty surprising (not)-

At a welcome home ceremony this week for Myers and other troops from the Johnstown, Pa.-based 876th Engineer Battalion, the crowd cheered when a Murtha aide welcomed the troops on the congressman s behalf.

Obviously the troops being welcomed home were being cheered- not Congressman Murtha.
I also think that you would be able to find “many” who “share the war critic’s views” and “several” who “share his frustration with the conflict” and “a number” of “other troops and their families” who back Murtha no matter what crowd of people you scour if you keep looking long enough.

But you keep cherry picking articles that seem to be spinning your way, Oliver, if it makes you feel more confident about our troops redeploying to Okinawa in case we need quick strike capability.
And Frank- the article does say military hawk, which Murtha has been in the past, and I don’t doubt that he still may be- but while he is certainly has an important, honorable military past, his politics and judgement in his statements about this particular conflict definitely deserve the scrutiny they are getting.

Old murtha is so busy collecting pork earmarks for the great state of PA that he just didn’t have time to “support the troops” and had to send a lackey….
Classic.

But it is well documented that Murtha has been anything but a “war hawk” when it comes to this particular conflict in Iraq- and most of the MSM is figuring that out in the criticism they are getting in their coverage of Murtha. So now, rather that being described as a former “hawk” on Iraq- he is being referenced as a “military hawk”- which if you look at his entire political record, is pretty accurate.

Marty: Not all veterans are hawks. But Murtha thought running from Somalia was a good idea, and running from Lebanon was a good idea, and now running from Iraq seems like a good idea to him.
He’s been opposed to the war in Iraq, but more quietly, for some years now.

That’s not a war hawk to me.

Untruth #1: The reporter calls Murtha a “war hawk.”

Myers, soldier (”unsure”)

Wozniak, soldier: “for a strong military and he definitely supports the troops.”
No mention of Iraq.

Bonnie Shable, wife of soldier “I would like them out of there.”

Ruth Ann Biesinger-Sliko, 55, colleague of teacher and former teacher of six students: Murtha has lost her vote because of his negativity about the war.

Murtha remains popular in his district, in large part because of the federal dollars he has delivered

Cindy Saylor, soldier’s Mom: “I just believe everything he says is very true”

Many of the soldiers declined to be interviewed. Or, when asked about Murtha, said they didn’t know enough to have an opinion.

Tom Geiger, a 79-year-old World War II veteran, said he thinks Murtha is “50 percent right and 50 percent wrong.”
“Maybe they should have searched a little bit more” for weapons of mass destruction, Geiger said. “But once you’re into it, you’re stuck with it.”

Not exactly a revolution brewing out there.

I guess the creator of that headline graduated from the Oliver Willis School of Headline Hyperbole.