Thanks DC. I have no military background but I know how many good patriots are currently serving our nation. Murtha disgusts me as do the rest of the people who are always at odds with those striving to do the best possible job in preserving our nation and it's people.
As Sergent Dunn would say, the Marine Corps is made up of 99% gentlemen and 1% shit-bird.
All we have right now is the word of a Congressman (D-dumbass) from Pennsylvannia. Who himself has a doubtful record of service, according to reports of his service, and different stories about his Ribbons and Badges. As far as I am concerned he is as credible as his sources, which seem to accentuate the worst for the current situation.
People close to the investigation are not talking and I am quite sure with Murthas track record nobody is running to the phone to inform Murtha of the progress in the investigation.
Also as far as I can tell Murtha must've been a real Candy-ass Marine.
But as has always been the case the Marine Corps will take care of its own problems (without any help from some, has been Candy-Ass) and the problem will be dealt with swiftly and fairly.
You're right, Mark. The USMC will take care of it. Murtha doesn't help. As Pat points out, he's joined the other side.
Again, it's hard to understand the purpose of such statements except that he wants to use his position in Congress to undermine the American war effort.
DC:
Point Four in your column tells the simple truth about servicemen. We Americans are very extreme and divided in our estimation of military people, and I'm very uncomfortable with both sides. You spend a lifetime trying to square the circle of people's assumptions about you, and you wind up just hating the subject completely and keeping silent.
We aren't all heroes and we aren't all baby killers; we represent the population at large with all the human faults and shortcomings common to man. All the rest is myth or presumption. Take Vietnam. Only about 20% of us who ever served there saw combat, or were even fired upon. Yes, the first casualty of war is truth. We've gone from being killers, to a benighted generation of losers to, now, victims or heroes. To hell with all of it. We're just people.
But Murtha's offense is different. Like Kerry, he's a fraud, and every veteran knows it, including Murtha. Even without the doubts attending his service, and his conflicting accounts of his heroism (three different descriptions of the same incident), Murtha's "cause" is rotten and indecent. He knows that, without his service record, his noxious prattle would be just more flatus in the stinking cloud emanating from the left.
Has he ever said, "take my service out of the equation. Here's how I see it, and it has nothing to do with what I experienced"? Never. Like every salute-for-hire uniform whore, he lets the brass, ribbon and leather pump up his nonsense. Murtha is the worst of his kind. A phony, a bogus drum-banger, gilding his political bullshit with the unearned respect he attains by being a Marine and a "decorated Vietnam veteran". To hell with him.
Rhod,
THAT was fabulous. You've about said it all.
Oh Lord how you nailed it with #6.
A finely written post in total, but, to be redundant...#6 is (for me) the GRAND SLAM.
David,
Appreciate your dropping in ... Murtha is serving up the batting practice, so what can you say?
Thanks, DC. Will complain for food.
You know I think we are missing a very important part of this puzzel. When I came home in 1967, I remember talking to a neighbor, who was a Marine in WW 2, His remark to me was, "I feel for your guys in Vietnam, you need a scorecard to tell who the enemy is, we could tell the japanese just by looking at them or by their uniform".
Hence, today, a similar situation exist as did in Vietnam. According to MM, citing an interview with a Sergeant, who had just returned from Iraq, 'The insurgents use children to carry out their schemes.'
Murtha of all people should know what that is like. So before the Media goes ape and accuses somebody of a War crimes, one would think they would verify the sources... Yeah right, this is called the 'Rather verification rule', if it hurts the Military effort and the President, then it must be true, and if not they will swear it is true.
But the enemy ID has some validity.
We ask so much of our military.
Give us security and keep us safe. Keep us living in the land of the free.
Oh an don't let it bother you when some jerk wants to burn the Flag or trash the military, keep on feeling good about what you do. Stay motivated even when the media trash you, politicians trash you, anti-war citizens trash you and all of them lie about you. Not just little lies but horrible crazy lies.
Go after the enemy but be nice about it. Say pretty please before you shoot someone so the media won't say you did not give the bad guy a chance.
Don't let it bother you when schools are let out early to have the students protest your efforts and bash you for the afternoon.
And when one of your brothers is killed in action and he comes home to be buried and creeps harass his family at the funeral and try to degrade his service that is ok with men (?) like Murtha. Don’t let that get to you either.
I have had it with the likes of Murtha and his ilk. I don’t know either what happened. But you know what? I am for the Marines. I am just a girl, and never served my country, but by golly if I was I can promise that I would have the same attitude about the enemy I do now. Take no prisoners and never leave one of mine behind. I say give the money for taking prisoners and feeding them to the troops to increase their pay, to their families and to our Veterans.
And as far as the enemy we are fighting today, the Islamic fascists they worship death. I am not saying to go out and kill innocent people but who is innocent? What does inocent look like. How do we know the enemy did not run into the building( house) to hide. How do we know the house did not harbor the enemy and our troops knew this. Even bicycles are not innocent, the enemy uses them to attach IED’s to. The enemy uses dogs, loved by our troops to put IED’s on and kill them when they only want to make friends with the dog. This enemy is from the pits of hell and they are aided by our media, our politicians like Murtha, Code Pink etc.
I apoligize for going off like this. It just breaks my heart that our troops any of them have to be put through the things they have even before this situtation came about. They deserve better, we owe them more then any human being can repay.
WT,
You don't need to apologize for "going off". One thing that may encourage you: Most of the military doesn't pay much attention to the crazy elements in our society. At the basic level, the most important thing to them is taking care of each other. Then it's their families.
And again, no need to say sorry. There's lots of "going off" going on here, where you are among friends.
Thank you DC, I love your blog. You guys here all deserve tremendous respect as our troops today do too. So I get very upset when the lefties do their bashing. Just a warrior at heart, that's me. hahaha
I love the posts on this by you, Rhod and Mark all hit home and are sooo good.
Thanks for being you and all you do.
DC
You were much kinder with your remarks about Mr. Murtha than I have been.
He is not an honorable man. To allow oneself to become the mouthpiece to the left, over one's brotherhood, is cowardly.
Semper Fi
I stand with the Marines
Raven,
Yes, it could have been worse. A lot of people feel that way.
Marines are under fire for a number of things happening in Iraq these days, and I am pulling for them.
Funny, isn't is, how that sacrosanct Leftist principle "Innocent Until Proven Guilty ... Amen" just goes out the window in cases like these.
Yes DC it is..kind of funny. Not really funny so much as it's ironic. The media and the left have acted as prosectutor, jury and judge in this case while the rest of have yet to see the actual report. Oh well...guess we the people don't matter.
And frankly, I stand with those Marines no matter what the outcome of this is.
Haditha is a cess pool and sometimes war is just nasty.
I think its really nice that u care about those soldiers in Iraq its awesome
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