by Kathy
Rep Murtha and Speaker Nancy Pelosi are at it again, engineering another strategy for defeat.
With Congress’s August recess less than one week away, it should hardly come as a surprise that Rep. John Murtha, the chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, is readying more legislative mischief. Mr. Murtha, a close political ally of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has made it clear that plans to use the $459.6 billion defense appropriations bill, which comes to the floor this week, to short-circuit the current military campaign against jihadists in Iraq and shut down the prison at Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo).
Murtha has a three point plan:
1. Set 60-day timeline to begin troop withdrawal from Iraq.
This of course would leave the Iraqi’s to defend Iraq on their own before they are able to do so on their own.
2. Implement the “slow-bleed” strategy
This is the withholding of funds for the war unless the military meets some unattainable standards for training and equipping the troops
3. Close Gitmo
Why does John Murtha care more about terrorist than his own soldiers, it has been proven time and time again that we treat our prisoners humanely, certainly better than the other side is treating ours. Ask John Murtha about the 4 American military men are still missing, why isn’t he fighting for them?
The New York Times today even says we are winning in Iraq, to even consider this proposal at this juncture would sabotage our own troops in favor of the enemy.
Why would these so-called representatives of the people (those in uniform too) even consider such a plan at this time? Why for appeasement of the far left wing of their party, even if their plans run counter to reality and American victory.
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