At the top of the smear merchant Drudge's website is the following clickable link.
"Murtha says USA poses top threat to world peace; more dangerous than North Korea, Iran..."
Of course this will spread like wild fire through the GOP blogs, conservative media outlets, and eventually find its way into the mainstream press.
The link leads http://www.azstarnet.com/...
The headline here is also misleading. " Murtha says U.S. poses top threat to world peace".
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strangley the article does'nt give us an exact quote from Murtha...... what it does say is American presence in Iraq is more dangerous to world peace than nuclear threats from North Korea or Iran, Rep John Murtha, D-Pa., said. Even if that is truely what he said(of which I have my doubts)it is not what the drudgereport or azstarnet claimed.
He's not claiming that the US poses the top threat to world peace. Far from it. What he is claiming is the situation in Iraq is creating thousands of new terrorists. Anyone not blinded by idealogy will reconginze that the war in Iraq has given Al Qaeda the perfect propoganda weapon to recruit new members with, both inside Iraq and outside. It is they who will cause the threat to the world, not Americans. But it is the administrations misguided policy which is backfiring, so of course american policymakers share some of the blame. Very different from claiming the US is the greatest threat to the world. I would go on with my critique, but I know you guys see through this nonsense too. We need to preempt this smear. How can we find out exactly what he said? And lets contact the media before they get the propoganda from the right.