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John Murtha: Military Destroyer
Marine recruiter details Murtha's damage
In America, we rightfully make public examples of the worst behavior
in our society. This is true even of our sacred institutions. The
recent article by the Associated Press reporting over a hundred women
seeking to serve our country were treated in a sexually inappropriate
way is just one such disheartening incident. The Armed Forces are
spending $1.5 billion on 8,000 recruiters this year.
However, there is other disheartening news coming from a specific
recruiter that is telling about Rep. John Murtha (D-PA). Boot Murtha
has received anecdotal evidence that Murtha’s words and deeds
undermine our military and demoralize our troops. His actions also
cause damage to our nation’s recruiting efforts.
The following e-mail message written by a Marine underscores the
damage Murtha is doing to the Corp and America's defense capabilities:
I am a Marine on Recruiting duty. John Murtha needs to understand
that he only speaks for the constituents within his district. I keep
an eye on our elected officials at all times via the news, yet I had
never heard of Murtha, until his propaganda. I sometimes wonder if he
has even experienced the horrors that I have before I came to this
duty. It is no secret that recruiting the best of today's men and
women for our Armed Forces is tougher than ever. I have had people ask
me about Murtha and Semper Fi, when I describe to them the pride of
belonging they receive should they join the Marines. I simply reply by
telling them that he is no longer a Marine and is a disgrace to the
Marines of my former battalion the very one from which the Marines are
from that he judged, tried, and convicted before they were even home.
I have also removed the page with all the famous and successful former
marines, which included John Murtha on that list, out of my Marine
Corps Opportunity Book, which I use to show people about opportunities
in the Marines.
Author’s name withheld for their protection
The disgust for Rep. Murtha comes from the fact that he has mislead
the nation and his district into believing he is a strong supporter of
America’s military. In truth, he is extremely injurious to America’s
military.
One only has to look at what Murtha's has done in taking political
advantage of America’s military strength:
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Claims to "speak for the soldiers," but he refuses to listen to Iraq
War veterans from his own state of Pennsylvania.
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In spite of evidence to the contrary, he continues to tell America
that our military "is broken and worn out"
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Uses his political platform to deny Marines due process under the
law. He claimed to have insider information from Pentagon source
Gen. Michael Hagee that substantiated his inexcusable sacrifice of
soldiers for political gain – a claim Hagee completely refutes.
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Receives Code Pink award from the anti-war group that demonstrates
against wounded service personnel at Walter Reed Hospital
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Pork barrel that has bloated the budget and prevented our troops
from receiving needed supplies like body armor.
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Inappropriate pushing forward of the Stryker vehicle without proper
field testing, which resulted in the deaths of military personnel at
the front in Iraq.
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Failure to support Stolen Valor legislation that punishes those who
falsely claim to have earned military service medals that they did
not earn.
Of course, Murtha served in the military -- in Vietnam. He claims this
renders him an irrefutable authority on foreign policy and that anyone
else who has not served in the military has no claim. That canard has
gone on long enough.
The truth is, what Murtha has done and is doing hurts our military --
as the above recruiter informs us from the front lines. Proof of his
damage to the military is also backed up by e-mails from our military
in Iraq. Murtha is part of a crowd who just don’t get it that we are
fighting an extremist Islamist movement that only wants to kill us and
destroy our way of life. Those Islamists are in every country in the
Middle East, and they are in Europe and America as well. They cannot
be negotiated with, and no amount of United Nations resolutions will
solve the problem.
As Carl Von Clausewitz stated, “The only way to defeat your enemy is
to defeat his will to fight.”
Our enemies are counting on the American public and leaders like
Murtha who are unwilling to pay the price of victory. We have too many
leaders who have not learned the real lessons of Vietnam.
If Murtha, Sen. John Kerry and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi were
true experts about the War in Vietnam, they would be well aware of the
words of Bui Tin, who served on the General Staff of the North Vietnam
Army and received the unconditional surrender of South Vietnam on
April 30, 1975: [LINK]
"It was essential to our strategy" referring to the
war being fought on two fronts, the Vietnam battlefield and back home
in America through the antiwar movement on college campuses and in the
city streets. He further stated the North Vietnamese leadership
listened to the American evening news broadcasts "to follow the growth
of the American antiwar movement."
"America lost
because of its democracy; through dissent
and protest it lost the ability to mobilize a will to win."
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