This war is destroying our ability to meet the threat down the road.
"John Patrick" ""Jack"" "Murtha, Jr." was an Politics of the United States/American politician from the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Murtha, a Democratic Party (United States)/Democrat, represented Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1974 until his death in 2010.
A former Marine Corps officer, Murtha was the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. A member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives/Pennsylvania House from 1969 to 1974, he narrowly won a special election to Congress in 1974 and was successively reelected every two years until his death. In the first decade of the 21st century, Murtha had been best known for his calls for a withdrawal of American forces in Iraq, as well as questions about his ethics.
In 2006, after the Democrats won control of Congress in the U.S. House election, 2006/2006 midterm elections he made a failed bid to be elected Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives/House Majority Leader during the 110th United States Congress/110th Congress (2007–2009) with the support of the new Speaker of the United States House of Representatives/House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi.{{Cite news /authorlink
More John Murtha on Wikipedia.The troops don't know what to do. They don't have the direction they need in order to supervise the prisoners.
You have hit it on the head.
They lost my trust when they did that, ... By not telling us, they lied.
I have never seen such an outpouring in the 32 years I've been in Congress of support and people with tears in their eyes, people walking along clapping when I'm walking through the halls of Congress, saying something needed to be said.
That's not the point. We want to protect our guys. This is all about our guys, and our moral standards and our moral standards in the world.
We're overextended worldwide, ... We have too small an Army for the job that we're doing, yet we can't increase the size of the Army because it's volunteer, and we can't enlist anybody.
People are unhappy about it, Republicans and Democrats. They all realize that the Iraqis aren't going to do any fighting until we decide that they're going to take over. As soon as the elections are over and the constitution is ratified, you're going to find American forces drawn down. The public's against it. The military's overextended. There's no place else to go.
The public has turned against this war. And when the public turns against the war, Congress reacts to that.
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