I am a celibate male but, today on Meet the Press, the
Congressman hit my G-spot!
I don't know the man, nor do I much know about his politics. They say he has been a hawk and not very liberal. He's no Russ Feingold.
Today on Meet the Press, I had the mental equivalent of a first G-spot orgasm.
I have not had anyone so
articulately and forthrightly defend a cause I believe in since God know when.
Point after point after point, Mr. Murtha, completely blew away the dizzying effect of the last 2 years of untruths about Iraq.
It's not the first time, I have heard him say anyone of those points. It is not the first time, I have heard him talk.
It is just the first time in a very long time that I have seen a politician vacilate so little while hitting every word on target in the issue of Iraq.
Tim Russert started with one of his usual silly snippets, soliciting Murtha's request to Rumsfeld's claims about 3 years of progress in Iraq. John Murtha, rather than get into some argumentative slew about Rummy's comments started out strong;
Well, let me say first, Tim, this is President Bush's war. When he went into the war, he, he went against the advice of his father and the whole administration. He went against the advice of many of his military commanders. He went in without--with inadequate force for the transition to peace and then he had no exit strategy, so it's their war. And what, what they're trying to do is paint it as if there's progress in order to be able to get out. What I see is not enough electricity, only 10 hours a day. I see not enough water, only 30 percent of the people have clean water. I, I see inadequate oil production. All those things were supposed to be part of, of getting this war under control. They have mishandled it, mischaracterized it.
When asked Russert and Matthews' favourite new question; "were you wrong to vote for the war?"
It was a mistake. It was a bad mistake.
How to solve the mess about Iraq?
OK, I say fire some people, that's the first thing.
and then...
But then, then, then we go to, to how do we get our troops out of there? You redeploy to the periphery so that we, if we have to, we can go back in. .......Mr. President, let's go back to fighting the war on terrorism. Let, let's reduce our presence in Iraq, let's start to rebuild the Army, because the Army's broken as far as I'm concerned. And the military commanders know this.
Why has Iraq gone wrong?
At first, if we'd acted quickly--it's just like Katrina. If he'd have acted quickly, he'd have made some progress. If he'd have kept the, the military, the Sunni military there, he, he had been all right to get it under control. But when he didn't do that, he lost control. We, we weren't liberators anymore, we became occupiers, and so 80 percent of the people want us out of there. That, that's the simple answer.
What about the fact that the Bush administration is now implementing a variation of the Murtha/Biden plan, including a recent benchmark set by the President for handing Iraqi control to the Iraqi?
I say there'll be withdrawals. But there'll be--for instance, you'll see in the spring they'll start to announce withdrawal and you will see what they call benchmarks, what everybody else calls a timetable
and
after I made my statement, they called in 13 or 14 former secretaries of defense and, and, and state and so forth. They gave them each a minute or two to talk to them.
He indicated that the American people have followed his lead on Iraq:
Every time--when I spoke out, the American public was for this war when I first spoke out. The majority of the public was for it.
Will there be an October surprise a la Pat Buchanan (an invasion of Iran)?
He--there's no way he's going to take military action in Iran.
But the administration and some (wingnuts) still insist there was contact between Al Qaeda & Iraq. Our man wouldn't get into this. He asserted;
Oh, well, come on. I mean, that, that's just an excuse to try to justify the war. They've changed their position six times on, on this war, why we went to war
In my very humble opinion John Murtha's Meet The Press appearance today the 3rd anniversary of the Invasion has done more to summarise the complete right side of Iraq politics and policy. Much more than the entire 2004 convention and campaign of the Democratic Party.
I think that, while the democrats won't make him party leader (and they shouldn't) they should create the role of party wise man. The official seat would have Murtha's name embossed on it.