Boston Herald: Cut and run in Iraq isn’t a real policy

[Barrett808]

It’s one thing to have the likes of Sens. Ted Kennedy and John Kerry criticize the administration’s conduct of the war in Iraq and issue their repeated calls for the withdrawal of troops. They have become like white noise, so predictable you hardly notice any more.

But added to the anti-war chorus this past week was the voice of Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), ex-Marine, Vietnam vet and long-time supporter of the war on terror generally and its Iraq phase. But this past week, as Congress prepares to adjourn for its Thanksgiving break and as Murtha prepares to return to a district which has suffered the loss of 13 of its native sons in Iraq, he went before his colleagues to urge the pullout of American troops within the next six months.

“Our military has done everything that has been asked of them,” he said. “It is time to bring them home.”

Now we have no reason to question the sincerity of Murtha’s change of heart. Vietnam did indeed leave scars on the psyche of a generation - Murtha’s generation - that simply won’t go away. But did we learn nothing from that tragic war about pulling the rug out from under our own troops, about denigrating the job they have been given and about setting a timetable for surrender

And while Murtha’s timing might have made sense to him, as he prepared to face the losses of his constituents, it couldn’t have been worse on the ground in Iraq with elections scheduled next month.

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http://news.bostonherald.com/opinion/view.bg?articleid=112902

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[TheCowsCameHome]

2. ???? Do you mean Boston Herald ????

[Todd B]

3. That's the Herald...

...and...

"Turning" Right Wing? Hah! They've accomplished that YEARS ago.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. A Murdoch rag, a lot like the supermarket tabloids.

[Todd B]

5. Tell me about it!

I can't even stand them anymore.. I'm in central Mass, so, thankfully, we don't see too much of them.. but every once in a while they'll be a copy in a waiting room and it's just trash.

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. I have trouble picking one up even if it has been discarded.............

Ugh.

[Eugene]

6. That was the Herald, not the Globe.

Today's Globe has an editorial calling John Murtha's
White House critics a bunch of chicken-hawks.

DERRICK Z. JACKSON
White House plays chicken with a war hero

By Derrick Z. Jackson | November 19, 2005

THE WHITE House is so deluded, it actually believes it can turn a
soaring hawk into a scrounging chicken. Stung by the call by US
Representative John Murtha of Pennsylvania to pull out of Iraq,
Scott McClellan, President Bush's press secretary, said this week,
"It is baffling that he is endorsing the policy positions of Michael
Moore and the extreme liberal wing of the Democratic Party."

Talk about playing the chicken-hawk card. A White House where most of
the architects of war avoided combat in their own lives dared to
associate two people who are worlds apart in world views. Moore made
the anti-Bush ''Fahrenheit 9/11," which infuriated the right wing by
breaking box office records for a documentary film. Moore was booed at
the 2004 Republican National Convention.

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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/11/19/white_house_plays_chicken_with_a_war_hero

Boston Globe = Liberal leaning NY Times subsidiary
Boston Herald = Bush-worshiping right-wing rag

[niallmac]

7. So quick to criticize quick troop withdrawal so quick to

support illegal invasion.
No one should be able to grand stand about how our troops need to stay in Iraq and die
unless they are IN Iraq.

[Mynameissalvatore]

9. Unfortunately

the Herald has become the paper of the working class and the Globe is thought of as a paper for yuppies who aren't even from Boston. Boston has the reputation as being a liberal city but the truth is that it isn't as liberal as people think. Yes, the Herald is second to the Globe in circulation but a large chunk of the populace reads this rag.
I can't even stand to see it in the newsstands with its raging front page. It screams tabloid and people eat it up and swallow it whole.
It is a perfect example of how there is an idealogical war being waged and the ones with the loudest voices and the obvious talking points are winning that war. Or were winning I should say. I am optimistic that things are beginning to turn.

[Skittles]

10. I didn't get past "the likes of Sens. Ted Kennedy and John Kerry "

that tells me right there it is rightwing wackjob material