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Originally Posted by gem
You are correct, it was jotathought and not you that I was responding to. As with you, I too am more than willing to apologize for an error, though my error here was not what I was saying but was the relatively minor mistake of getting your names mixed up. Would you admit that Jotathought was wrong about Sen. Murtha though?
I've seen a lot of the Bush&Co/war supporters in various venues say the Sen. Murtha was wrong and condemn those of us that believed Murtha was correct in what he said about the incident in Haditha. That apparently makes those of us on the Left the ones that were correct. Would you be willing to consider the possibility that there's been quite a few things that US liberals have been trying to tell those of you that supported Bush&Co that might just have been right?
I also accept your apology.
Thank you!
Gem
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No, and I'll tell you my reasons for saying so.
Here's one of Murtha comments" there was no firefight, there was no IED (improvised explosive device) that killed these innocent people. Our troops overreacted because of the pressure on them, and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood."
1. Murtha condemned the Marines before they were even tried. In a country founded on the belief that a man is innocent until PROVEN guilty, that's an inexcusable act.
2. Murtha wasn't outraged by the event, he was politicking. He took an isolated incident and turned it into a "reason" why we should withdraw our troops from Iraq.
3. Murtha, by making a front page spectacle of the event, gave terrorists another recruiting tool and that, too, is inexcuaable.
So, while Murtha may have been right in his statement, he certainly wasn't right in turning the event into his own little crusade against the war. It was one of the most lowdown, abhorrent political tactics that I'd ever seen that had repercussions far beyond his political career. IMO, the old bastard should have been thrown in jail after Abscam.
