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November 22, 2005
"Hawk" Murtha Has Advocated Surrender Before
Posted by Dave Blount at November 22, 2005 6:31 PM
Dhimmicratic Congressman Jack Murtha, inaccurately portrayed by the MSM as a hawk, broke out of obscurity recently by calling for an immediate unconditional surrender to al-Qaeda in Iraq. Because he served in the military, no one is allowed to call him a coward, despite the fact that he did not have the fortitude even to vote in favor of his own call for immediate withdrawal. Now it comes to light that this isn't the first time Murtha has urged his nation to cut and run in the face of terrorists.
NewsMax reports:
After terrorists attacked U.S. troops in Mogadishu, Somalia 12 years ago, anti-Iraq war Democrat, Rep. John Murtha urged then-President Clinton to begin a complete pullout of U.S. troops from the region.
"Our welcome has been worn out," Murtha announced on the "Today" show in September of 1993. Two weeks later, after the Black Hawk Down tragedy, Murtha visited American forces in Somalia and came back to announce that the incident had devastated our troops' morale. He advocated an immediate pullout, proclaiming, "There's no military solution."
Regrettably we then had the sort of president who listen to a defeatist fool like Murtha. The results have been disastrous — and not only for the unlucky residents of Somalia. Our tail-between-the-legs "redeployment" was a tipping point in the escalation of al-Qaeda violence that soon led to 9/11. To quote Osama bin Laden from a 1998 interview with John Miller of ABC:
Our people realize[d] more than before that the American soldier is a paper tiger that run[s] in defeat after a few blows. America forgot all about the hoopla and media propaganda and left dragging their corpses and their shameful defeat.
Following Murtha's advice now will certainly benefit al-Qaeda by reinforcing this perception — though of course the problem is not that the American soldier is a paper tiger, but that he has to fight with liberals' knives sticking out of his back.
Hat tip: Wiggins
