This may descend from an OPEN THREAD into a rant … bear with me:

Congressional Democrat Leaders Keep Distance to Troop Pullout


Although Murtha joins a growing list of pro-war Democrats that have reversed their positions, Democratic Congressional leaders distanced themselves from Murtha’s stance. House minority leader Nancy Pelosi said: “Mr. Murtha speaks for himself,” while Senate Minority Harry Reid added: “I don’t support immediate withdrawal.” (Democracy Now! headlines)


Check out Murtha’s illustrious military career. He’s got more military (and Congressional) experience in his little finger than Reid and Pelosi have in their entire beings.

This is good ….

“I won’t stand for the swift-boating of Jack Murtha,” Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, responded Friday. Also a Vietnam veteran, Kerry was dogged during the campaign by a group called the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that challenged his war record.


“There is no sterner stuff than the backbone and courage that defines Jack Murtha’s character and conscience,” Kerry said. (The Guardian)


I don’t like how this starts, and I’m afraid that Kerry is dancing again around the truth that’s staring us all in the face:

KERRY: I respectfully disagree with John Murtha. And I laid out a plan which is, I think, a good plan, a solid plan — that builds consistently on everything I said throughout the campaign last year — of what you need to do to be successful. And I believe my plan supports the troops in the right way.


KERRY: [Gen. George Casey, the top U.S. commander in Iraq] has said very clearly that the large presence of our troops in Iraq is part of the problem. It attracts terrorists. … Melvin Laird, secretary of defense for Richard Nixon, has written the same thing, that it’s our presence of troops that’s part of the problem. … (CNN, from Wolf Blitzer’s interview of John Kerry yesterday)


It seems to me — who’s never been in the military or in intelligence — that this gradual withdrawal stuff is just “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.” That’s why I think that Larry Johnson’s plan makes the most sense. Larry’s plan takes care of the “blowback” and uses intelligence to influence what independent government is formed by an independent Iraqi nation.

I sure as hell don’t want us to pull out and leave the Jihadists and Muslim extremists to take over. Larry’s design has a chance of preventing that from happening.


OPEN THREAD, ANYBODY?

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