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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-15-06 01:08 PM
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"Rep. Murtha Blasts GOP for Name-Calling"
WASHINGTON (AP) - 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."

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20061015/D8KOR22O0.html
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-15-06 01:10 PM
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1. Reality based Democrats are sooooooooo
Sexy! Thanks Jack Murtha for writing this piece for the wapo.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-15-06 05:54 PM
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2. Sexy? *l*
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