Rep. Murtha Blasts GOP for Name-Calling

[sabra]

http://www.ftimes.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=36979&TM=30769.98

Rep. Murtha Blasts GOP for Name-Calling

AP

WASHINGTON - Rep. John Murtha, a decorated Marine veteran who favors withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, wrote an essay for Sunday's Washington Post blasting Republicans for referring to him and other Iraq war opponents as "Defeatocrats."

In his opinion piece, first published on the Post's Web site Saturday night, Murtha, D-Pa., said Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and others in the White House have called Iraq war opponents appeasers and pessimists and labeled Democrats the "cut and run" party.

"It's all baseless name-calling, and it's all wrong," Murtha wrote. "Unless, of course, being a Defeatocrat means taking a good hard look at the administration's Iraq policy and determining that it's a failure.

"In that case, count me in. Because Democrats recognize that we're headed for a far greater disaster in Iraq if we don't change course - and soon. This is not defeatism. This is realism."

[Mr_Spock]

1. Glad he's speaking up

If it were me, I'd be using even more vitriol in my response.

I am so angry at the RW hate machine at this point - they better pray that they lose at this point - civility will go out the window if it is repeatedly shown that only hate gets the voters attention. Please restore dignity and honor to politics before it is too late.

[rodeodance]

2. thanks Murtha----glad you are here for us---for America.