Murtha is just wrong!

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Originally posted by LubeDude:<br />
Originally posted by PW2:<br />Have we not learned anything in the past 200 years? Our military is extremely effective, but only when it has a clear mission, clear goals, and a definition of what constitutes "victory"<br /><br />Currently we have none of those things.
This staement is just as absurd as Murthas!!<br /><br />So Bush just sent a bunch of troops over there with absolutly no direction or plan of any kind Huh??? :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: Just because we dont devulge our intentions to the enemy means we are morrons????
So what was the plan LD? I thought we went in because of the great threat Saddam posed with his 45-minute nukes and his litres of Sarin and VX gas. Oh wait, thats right....It was all about ties to AQ. But we couldn't find those either. Now it is about liberating the Iraqi people. <br /><br />Well guess what? Saddam is gone. They are free. If we had taken out Saddam then left the next day(figuratively speaking), I doubt Iraq would be anywhere near the state of chaos its in today. Iraq has done nothing but go downhill since we invaded. I'd love to see proof to the contrary. They had more water, more electricity, and no worries of suicide bombers, since there had never been one in the entire history of Iraq before we invaded. Go look it up. We turned a bad place to live into Hell on Earth. I guess to the GOP, thats considered making progress. Mission Accomplished? :confused:
 

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LubeDude<br />We had a major out at Ft Lewis call into a local talk show today. He was livid about Murtha'a remarks. Seems he knows him (Friends) and Murta also knows we are only 40 to 50 percent finished over there. Still building schools, hospitals etc etc that never make the US News ofcourse.<br />Murtha is just being a Demoncrate.. what else would you expect? Going to tell a scropion not to sting? Thats what he does.
 

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Here is the plan that has been in effect, though just released for public view.<br /><br />Executive Summary<br /><br />PART I<br />Strategic Overview<br /><br />Victory in Iraq Defined <br />Victory in Iraq is a Vital U.S. Interest <br />The Benefits of Victory in Iraq <br />The Consequences of Failure <br />Our Enemies and Their Goals <br />The Strategy of Our Enemies <br />Our Strategy for Victory is Clear <br />A. The Political Track (Isolate, Engage, Build)<br />B. The Security Track (Clear, Hold, Build)<br />C. The Economic Track (Restore, Reform, Build) <br />This Strategy is Integrated, and its Elements are Mutually Reinforcing <br />Victory Will Take Time <br />Why Our Strategy Is (and Must Be) Conditions-Based <br />Our Strategy Tracks and Measures Progress <br />PART II<br />Strategy in Detail<br /><br />The Political Track in Detail <br />The Security Track in Detail <br />The Economic Track in detail <br />Organization for Victory <br />APPENDIX<br /><br />The Eight Pillars <br /><br /><br />You can read more about it and download the complete PDF HERE.<br /><br />Want a plan??? HERE'S YOUR PLAN!
 

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That would be fine if it were a staff meeting on coorporate takeover (provided there were no moles).<br />But never has worked in recorded history, and it never would in any theatre of war. Murtha is a moron. I formed that opinion from his obvious investment in American defeat. He deserves less attention than sheehan does.
 

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Oh great, now we have a plan.Let's just hope that the flying bullets can read so they can implement it.<br />Any soldier can tell you that a plan is only good until the bullets start flying and the bullets are flying.<br />It is the job of the politicians to give the army a directive and it is the job of the army to create facts on the ground.<br />Unless we have more goals than the politicians want us to know,the army is done with its job.Let these worthy oriental gentlemen build their own nation.President Bush has clearly stated that we are not in the business of nation building.<br />If we have a politician who thinks that we should get out,then it is his job to say so.That is what democracy is all about.Anybody who thinks that democracy should be put on the back burner until the war is over,will soon enough find himself without democracy because the number one nation in this world will always have some war to fight and there will always be those who will try to sap its strength by having some fanatics fight a war against us.<br />Maybe it is time to stop taking the bait and start regrouping and gathering our strengh for the next onslaught<br />It is the job of our army to defend our democracy.If we have to put our democracy on hold to allow our army to defend it,then we are in a sorry state.
 

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Here is congressman Murtha in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, just a little east of Pittsburgh, last Wednesday. <br /><br />"We got real problems. The Army is broken. The equipment is worn out. We got a $50 billion backlog of equipment which needs to be repaired"--<br /> <br /><br />So he wants us to pull out. <br /><br /><br />"The Army is broken. The equipment is worn out.... They're living hand-to-mouth."<br /><br /><br /> <br />This man is heavily invested in an American defeat in the war on terror. He is hopelessly pinned-down by these statements to equate his victory to alqeuda victory.<br />As an American, i spit in his general direction, and hope i get some on:<br /><br />Jane,Sean,moore,turbin,bin laden,pelosi,kennedy and the rest of them. I only regret i might not have enough spewage for the entire throng of them
 

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Originally posted by rolmops:<br /> Oh great, now we have a plan.
We've had a plan... It's the Left that has no plan... other than cut and run.<br /><br />I hate to say it... but I believe Rush is right again... It's going to take another two or three 9-11 type events, on our soil, against our citizens for average America to wake up. Right now, she's fat and spoiled rotten. God help us all.
 

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Originally posted by 12Footer:<br />Jane,Sean,moore,turbin,bin laden,pelosi,kennedy and the rest of them. I only regret i might not have enough spewage for the entire throng of them
Don't hold back 12incher, let us know how you really feel!
 

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Yeah, I downloaded that plan and read it.<br /><br />That is a hope and a dream, and hope is not a plan.<br /><br />Oh, well. If you want more kool-aid, that contains a whole tanker full.<br /><br />I admit to only skimming some parts of it, but I did not see the part where the Iraqis were going to greet us as liberators, or that the insurgents are in their "last throes"<br /><br />I'd love to get Colin Powell alone, get a couple of scotches in him, and hear what he "really" thinks of this "plan"
 

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Originally posted by PW2:<br /> Have you even evaluated what Murtha is proposing?<br /><br />First, he is not advocating an "immediate pullout" but rather a reasoned reduction to the periphery. Let the Iraqis defend their own country, instead of bickering and posturing over political power while we defend their country.<br /><br />If they want their freedom, they will reach political compromises and create their own country. We should remain poised if and when the real terrorists (Al Qaida and the like) come in and then we will destroy them.<br /><br />The only way an insurgency can succeed is with the will of the people, and the Iraqis don't want us there, and we should not be taking sides in a civil war.<br /><br />Have we not learned anything in the past 200 years? Our military is extremely effective, but only when it has a clear mission, clear goals, and a definition of what constitutes "victory"<br /><br />Currently we have none of those things.
It's about time the true story is told. The redumblican sheople, or more accurately the anti-democrat wants to paint the picture to the redumblican party's benefit and ignore the true words Murtha spoke. He is not for an immediate withdrawl as you said, but he is in favor of a reduction and eventual withdrawl of our troops. The right should actually read his quotes and then address the real issue, what he really said!<br /><br />And since when does the enemy need dissent in America to take up arms against American military forces? The insurgents certainly do not need our constitutionally guaranteed right of governmental protest in order to attack our forces. So please stop insulting our intelligence by telling us such lies. And stop the assault on the rights these valiant troops are fighting to preserve. That is no more appropriate than those vilifying the troops.<br /><br />And 12footer, if what you write,"We got real problems. The Army is broken. The equipment is worn out. We got a $50 billion backlog of equipment which needs to be repaired" is true, do you suppose that maybe that is some of Murtha's reason for wanting to withdraw? If our equipment is in such bad shape it makes our brave soldiers' work and safety that much harder. After all you can't do the right job, the right way without the right tools. If our troops don't have the right tools, then we need to do one of two things. Either get them the right tools, proper equipment, safety gear and such, or (and not necessarily preferrable) GET OUT!<br /><br />I don't agree with this occupation. I do not like or respect baby bush, and I think that we are in Iraq to massage an ego trip for junior. However, since we are there our troops need our total support, get them the equipment necessary to do this job we have demanded of them, and let the military run the show, not the idiot-in-chief. Get them the right stuff, and let them get the job done. I think they would be home relatively quickly if this were the case.
 

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I want the democrats back that ran WW2. Those would be the ones that didn't quit the first couple years that we were LOSING the war. They pulled together to win. <br /><br />I maintain that we won in Vietnam (thanks to you Viet Nam vets) and only because of the idiots in America, did it turn to s*it. <br /><br />Many naysayers here won't refer to history. Turning things over to soon due to political pressures will net the same result as SE Asia.
 

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alden <br />Many naysayers here won't refer to history. Turning things over to soon due to political pressures will net the same result as SE Asia<br /><br />We won the war in Nam but lost it in DC.<br />Very well said.<br /><br />The Democrates right now are trying to make America look at the Bush Administration as bad.<br /><br />Its all about elections in 2006.<br />Murtha as always is just towing party lines...<br /><br />Monkey Sees as Monkey Does!<br /><br />But its our/my grandsons G*Damn blood that is spilled <br />Not theirs!<br />Sorry about that LD..Just got kinda worked up it,..smiley face :) <br /><br /><br />My .02
 

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Why do people insist on somehow comparing WW II with either Viet Nam or Iraq?<br /><br />We faced a real, and not imagined threat in WW II.<br />We had to win, and we did, but we knew who we were fighting and why. <br /><br />We do need to win the war against radical Islamic terrorists. Most of the civilized world would and did agree, and most supported our efforts in Afghanistan. Most would continue to support those efforts.<br /><br />But then inexplicably we went to Iraq. There are now no doubt a faction of radical islamics in Iraq now, (they were not there before) but we have become the enemy in Iraq to a significant number of Iraqi citizens...How else could the radicals execute their objectives without the consent of the population as a whole?<br /><br />We need to refocus our efforts at Bin Laden and his ilk.<br /><br />And what happened to the GWB who promised in the 2000 campaign to not use the US military in nation building excercises?<br /><br />There is no military solution to Iraq. Murtha is absolutely correct, and I for one applaud his courage in saying so.
 

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The Democrats want to keep giving the school yard bully their milk money hoping someday he will leave them alone. It will never happen... the people we are up against only understand one thing and that is death and destruction. I would much rather it be theirs than ours. I believe it was Patton that said "There is no glory in dieing for your country, the idea is to make the other guy die for his" or something like that. If our military is in as bad shape as Murtha says who's fault is that? Eight years of Clinton cutting Government jobs meaning the military and spending money on social programs instead of new equipment. You liberals had better wake up and realize this terrorist thing is not going to go away. They want us dead, pure and simple. Lets level Fallusia and the rest of the Sunni triangle and show them we mean what we say.
 

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Originally posted by PW2:<br /> We faced a real, and not imagined threat in WW II.<br />We had to win, and we did, but we knew who we were fighting and why. <br />
And that there gentlemen, sums it all up. "We faced a real, and not imagined threat". <br /><br />PW speaks for an ever increasing amount of Americans who have been duped into thinking that Radical Islam is not a threat. That those who seek our conversion or destruction are simply images of someone's imagination. God help us.<br /><br />I weep for my grandson's future. :( :( :(
 

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how in the ell can ya keep ragging at the last administration? its like ragging at a pharoh for todays egypt. Bush has been in office with a republican majority for 6 years. in that 6 years he could have easily erased any vestiges of any percieved military shortages. so lets focus on the past 6 years not the previous administrations.<br /> fact: our equipment is wearing out rapidly and most of it currently in theatre is past its expected combat life.<br /> fact: we have more boots on the ground almost 3 years after the start of an iraqi oil financed 6 week war. <br /> fact: refering to the above fact it seems the planning was **** poor. should have not gone in without enough troops and equipment to totally dominate the theater of war.<br /> ya get there furstes with tha mostes.<br /> its called economy of forces and is taught at the war college, I never went to it but have studied the docterines.<br /> it cost Lee the battle of gettysburg.<br />Fact: there were no IED's or suicide bombers in Iraq before april of 03, what happened?<br /> maybe some of you staunch Rush and Bush supporters care to elucidate ?<br /> Fact: limited war has not worked in any modern history, I guess the c- and the F's our current commander in chief got in college bear that out.<br /> but the only way to fight a war is to win. the only way to win is total force domination. the only way to totally dominate would be with all civilian production going to support the war effort.<br /> talk about not politically safe.<br /> could ya imagine steel,rubber and gas rationing today ?<br />not that it would matter to the Bush family,grandpa presscott traded with the Nazis past 1945 through a third party company that sold iron steel and rubber products to be used against the allies, <br /> seems like a lot of other american family dynasties the public is on the back burner for corperate profits.<br />otherwise we would have taken the financial backbone out of the terrorists. <br /><br />maybe one of the staunch Rush people cares to elaborate why we still attempt limited politically correct wars ?
 

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Originally posted by RubberFrog:<br />
Originally posted by 12Footer:<br />Jane,Sean,moore,turbin,bin laden,pelosi,kennedy and the rest of them. I only regret i might not have enough spewage for the entire throng of them
Don't hold back 12incher, let us know how you really feel!
:D <br />BTW, i love the avitar :D
 

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I'm a little confused on why we shouldn't mention the Clinton administration because it is ancient history but Rodbolt brings up trading with Nazis in 1945? I think we should be very happy the suicide bombers are in Iraq not New York City, LA, Seattle, and so on. I totally agree that limited war does not work I also believe that if we were to fight WW2 at this point in history that we would lose. Americans are so dumbed down and lazy that there is no way people would tolerate rationing of anything for a war effort. The entitlement mentality is such that anyone should have anything they want.
 

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rodbolt <br />Chill out or at least change your meds because they are not working.<br />Hmmm (Link thinks) Maybe I've BTDT before! <br /> NO NOT ME :D :D <br />Best wishes from our place to yours ;)
 

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First, My appolgies for the following rebuttal being so wordy. However,I have a lot to heart-felt things to say about this, and will NOT be a silent key regarding the vital issue.<br /><br />
Originally posted by David L. Moore:<br /> It's about time the true story is told. The redumblican sheople, or more accurately the anti-democrat wants to paint the picture to the redumblican party's benefit and ignore the true words Murtha spoke. He is not for an immediate withdrawl as you said, but he is in favor of a reduction and eventual withdrawl of our troops. The right should actually read his quotes and then address the real issue, what he really said!
<br />I am a neocon, which automatically classifies me as "anti-democ rat". So let's go to the true source that you base this myth upon, shall we?<br />As neo cons, we are NOT wanting "to paint the picture to the redumblican party's benefit and ignore the true words Murtha spoke.". Quite the contrary, we strive to shed light on EXACTLY what he said!!<br /><br />We do not want to take him out of context, nor put words in his mouth that he did not speak. We want lefties to know what their champion-o-the-day is saying PRECISELY, and what those words mean -- (words mean things, you know).<br /><br />When murtha says, "We got real problems. The Army is broken. The equipment is worn out. We got a $50 billion backlog of equipment which needs to be repaired"-- he is either lying, or telling the truth. Regardless tho, he is speaking about the American military (to us neo cons, "American military" would read:"the good guys"} in this global war;<br /><br />So take your pick, David. Are you claiming The man speaks for you? It would appear that you defend him, while telling me that i paint pictures to my own benifit. Support him if you like, but Not me. He speaks for alqeuda militarily. He doesn't speak for America militarily. His efforts benefit only one side.<br />You are either disenfranchised, or you are defending murtha's words here. If you are defending him, you obviously side with him (a moron who is heavily invested in American defeat right now)-- and you have that blood-purchased right, do not mistake me.<br /><br />
Originally posted by David L. Moore:<br />And since when does the enemy need dissent in America to take up arms against American military forces?
<br />Since their declaration of "gihaad" against us,David.<br /><br />
Originally posted by David L. Moore:<br /> The insurgents certainly do not need our constitutionally guaranteed right of governmental protest in order to attack our forces. So please stop insulting our intelligence by telling us such lies. And stop the assault on the rights these valiant troops are fighting to preserve. That is no more appropriate than those vilifying the troops.
<br />I strongly dissagree. The so-called "constitutionally guaranteed right of governmental protest" Is an extremely VITAL weapon in their exstensive arsenal. They have an will use this more often than IED's. There have been captives beheaded, and captives released by them. Why the Differences in their disposition of hostages, David? <br /><br />"Four Christian peace activists held hostage in Iraq were kidnapped at the same place where an Italian journalist was abducted, raising the possibility one group carried out both attacks", police said Thursday. <br />David, i am not a betting man, but would put the farm on this one: They WILL get released, just as the "italian Journalist" was, as opposed to being beheaded.<br />Why would i think this? Are not Christians the sworn enemy to these towel-headed mutants?<br />Aren't they slitting the throats of the "infidels"? We will have to wait and see, but i predict these "hostages" will be released, go on the talking heads shows on the insurgent networks, and tell the "story of their capture". And how they reasoned with their captors, and got to know them as "merely martyrs for their cause" (amoung other drivval). Then the book deals follow. Let's just see what happens, shall we? after all, the "italian journalist" is doing that now. And what a fine job she has done for "the insurgency" since!!!!<br /><br />
Originally posted by David L. Moore:<br /> if what you write,"We got real problems. The Army is broken. The equipment is worn out. We got a $50 billion backlog of equipment which needs to be repaired" is true,
Murtha said this. I just quoted him --- VERBATUM, by the way)! :rolleyes: <br />
Originally posted by David L. Moore:<br /> do you suppose that maybe that is some of Murtha's reason for wanting to withdraw?
I could care less what that moron's reasons to cut-and-run are! They are not mine, nor my country's official "reasons to withdrawl". You, him, and the rest of your band of brothers have every right to "dissent". So do i. But the main difference between my "armchair generalship" and you guys, is the side we champion in this global war. And being pro-American, any "dissent", or criticism (and there is some) i hold for the American effort will be held to myself until our total victory has been achieved, and not before.<br /><br />
Originally posted by David L. Moore:<br /> If our equipment is in such bad shape it makes our brave soldiers' work and safety that much harder. After all you can't do the right job, the right way without the right tools. If our troops don't have the right tools, then we need to do one of two things. Either get them the right tools, proper equipment, safety gear and such, or (and not necessarily preferrable) GET OUT!
<br /><br />Well, of course, David! If it were merely the true subject of murtha's vendetta, then of course, he would be trying to fix it. But he is TOTALLY innacurate, for one important thing!<br />He projects an EXPRESSED (not implied) vision of "hand to mouth" operations! Simply BS! We have the best equipped, most mobile military machine on this planet BAR NONE!<br />Sure, there are the shortages of equipment that have plagued every single modern army ever emassed (and every ancient one we have record of)! Hannibal had to feed a million troops and logistics personel AND a bunch of elephants... He lost half of his force BEFORE any vontact with the enemy --But he never turned-back! He never "withdrew"! And he won!<br /><br />In warfare, there are fundimental laws of insuring victory, or sealing your own defeat.<br />John F'in Kerry spoke about "the safety of our troops" last Wednesday, in rebuttal to the president's speech. He stated his concern for "safety of our troops"..... Another obvious MORON! The entire purpose of having troops is to place them into harm's way, to kill more of the enemy than they kill of you, and to break more of their equipment than their own in the process.<br />In general, this is to achieve what is called a "MISSION", David. Victory?<br />A liberal victory is invested primarily in a defeat of that mission.<br />I pray that you loose.<br /><br /><br />
Originally posted by David L. Moore:<br /><br />I don't agree with this occupation. I do not like or respect baby bush, and I think that we are in Iraq to massage an ego trip for junior. However, since we are there our troops need our total support, get them the equipment necessary to do this job we have demanded of them, and let the military run the show, not the idiot-in-chief. Get them the right stuff, and let them get the job done. I think they would be home relatively quickly if this were the case.
So how about supporting them as opposed to those who criticise the very mission they were assigned to complete (must be victorious, btw)? Or do you want to cut "our overwhelming losses" and run too? Or do you just want a literal defeat? To us patriots (or "redumblicans" if you really prefer), the two scenarios are one in the same! I say, "NO THANKS!"<br /><br />Murtha fought and was even wounded serving in the military he now criticises from the comfort of his podium. Whereas he remains one of my heroes, he is still a moron. And i would hurl a loogie at him in a second, if i got within "firing range". Samey same goes for that other traitorous moron, John F'in Kerry...If only a loogie would awake them!!<br /><br />And that's my opinion. Thank you for asking, and wishing to debate it.
 
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