The Washington Post lays into the unstable, uninformed Jack Murtha
Mr. Murtha’s cynicism is matched by an alarming ignorance about conditions in Iraq. He continues to insist that Iraq “would be more stable with us out of there,” in spite of the consensus of U.S. intelligence agencies that early withdrawal would produce “massive civilian casualties.” He says he wants to force the administration to “bulldoze” the Abu Ghraib prison, even though it was emptied of prisoners and turned over to the Iraqi government last year. He wants to “get our troops out of the Green Zone” because “they are living in Saddam Hussein’s palace”; could he be unaware that the zone’s primary occupants are the Iraqi government and the U.S. Embassy?
It would be nice to believe that Mr. Murtha does not represent the mainstream of the Democratic Party or the thinking of its leadership. Yet when asked about Mr. Murtha’s remarks Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) offered her support. Does Ms. Pelosi really believe that the debate she orchestrated this week was not “the real vote”? If the answer is yes, she is maneuvering her party in a way that can only do it harm.
The guy is clueless, has no idea what is happening in Iraq. Kind of like the new chairmen of the Intelligence Committee, ironically enough. Remember good old Rep. Sylvestre Reyes, the guy that didn’t know whether Al Qaeda was a Sunni or Shiite group?
And now we have Nancy Pelosi appointing the laughably corrupt Rep. William Jefferson to the Homeland Security Committee. Yes, that guy, the one with $90K in his freezer.
Talk about a culture of corruption and cluelessness. Nancy Pelosi will take this party over the cliff before 2008. Good riddance.