14 January 2006

Situation in Iraq Is Civil War, Rep. John P. Murtha, Huffington Post, 13 Jan 2006 I've often, and now for years, have pointed out to my friends at Lucianne.com that Dubya and this Republican administration have demonstrated breathtaking incompetence in both their selection of Iraq as the next front, after Afghanistan, in the war on terror, and their subesequent prosecution of that war. It was many years ago I told them it was coming, and now the failure in Iraq is plain for anybody that's not in a persistent vegitative state to see. Interesingly, I've heard that the Republican propaganda proletariate has been mobililizing a "Swift Boat" campaign against John Murtha. Interesting, because I've always found it wonderous how corrupting Republican political philosophy is! Here we have Republican military veterans, some combat veterans stabbing their fellow combat veterans in the back in the service of a the privileged son of a Republican family of Patricians, who levereged every family tie to not only obtain every privilege, but to avoid combat service in the great war of his generation. Then as President, he turned around and repeated every possible mistake made regarding and during Vietnam to create his very own historical abomination! John Murtha is a real hero, and real American. He's calling it straight on Iraq, and the history books will record his position, because it is the true and accurate one. Here are some comments he made for the Huffington Post: Situation in Iraq Is Civil War by Rep. John P. Murtha   According to the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Second Edition, the definition of a civil war is a "war between political factions or regions within the same country." That is exactly what is going on in Iraq, not a global war on terrorism, as the President continues to portray it. 93 percent of those fighting in Iraq are Iraqis. A very small percentage of the fighting is being done by foreign fighters. Our troops are caught in between the fighting. 80 percent of Iraqis want us out of there and 45 percent think it is justified to kill American troops. Iraqis went to the polls in droves on December 15th and rejected the secular, pro-democracy candidates and those who the Administration in Washington propped up. Preliminary vote results indicate that Iyad Allawi, the pro-American Prime Minister, received about 8 percent of the vote and Ahmad Chalabi, Iraq's current Oil Minister and close associate of the U.S. Iraq war planners, received less than 1 percent. According to General Vines, the top operational commander in Iraq, "the vote is reported to be primarily along sectarian lines, which is not particularly heartening." The new government he said "must be a government by and for Iraqis, not sects." The ethnic and religious strife in Iraq has been going on, not for decades or centuries, but for millennia. These particular explosive hatreds and tensions will be there if our troops leave in six months, six years or six decades. It is time to re-deploy our troops and to re-focus our attention on the real threats posed by global terrorism. U.S. Representative John Murtha has dedicated his life to serving his country both in the military and in the halls of Congress. He had a long and distinguished 37-year career in the U.S. Marine Corps, retiring from the Marine Corps Reserve as a colonel in 1990; and he has been serving the people of the 12th Congressional District since 1974, one of only 131 people in the nation's history to have served more than 30 years in the U.S. House of Representatives and one of only 224 Members of Congress who have served 30 or more years. 6:45:12 PM    comment [] trackback []

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