Bush Admin. Launched Secret Smear Campaign Against Murtha...

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/01/12/bush-admin-launched-secr_n_13713.html

Bush Admin. Launched Secret Smear Campaign Against Murtha...

The Huffington Post | Posted January 12, 2006 05:55 PM

The Huffington Post has learned the Bush administration recently asked high ranking military leaders to denounce Congressman John Murtha. Congressman Murtha has called for the Bush Administration to withdraw US troops from Iraq.

The Bush Administration first attacked Rep. Murtha for his Iraq views by associating him with the filmmaker Michael Moore and Representative Jean Schmidt likened him to a coward on the floor of the House of Representatives. When those tactics backfired, Dick Cheney called Murtha "A good man, a marine, a patriot and he's taking a clear stand in an entirely legitimate discussion."
Though the White House has backed off publicly, administration officials have nevertheless recently made calls to military leaders to condemn the congressman. So far they have refused.

[shanti]

1. so they refused....

good for them! i wonder, though, what career price they paid for their decision.

[Catch22Dem]

2. Marines take that shit seriously

They're much more likely to stand with Murtha, a fellow Marine, than with an administration FULL of people who never served a day. I was in the Air Force. We didn't have the same esprit de corps, but I certainly respect it.

[driver8]

3. I agree -- "once a Marine, always a Marine." These guys

definitely take care of their own.

I was in the Navy -- we definitely don't have the esprit de corps that the Marines have.