Note: See Update at the end
Brit Hume of Fox News had some strong things to say Sunday about anti-war Democratic Representative John Murtha.
Look, this man has tremendous cachet among House Democrats, but he is not — this guy is long past the day when he had anything but the foggiest awareness of what the heck is going on in the world.
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Investor's Business Daily in a hard-hitting editorial elaborates on Murtha's plans as chairman of the House panel that overseas military spending.
Democratic talk of "redeployment" has encouraged terrorist groups around the world.
Jihad Jaara, a senior member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, said before the 2006 vote:
"Americans should vote Democratic," adding that "it is time the American people support those who want to take them out of the Iraqi mud." The statement could have come from Murtha, Kerry, Hillary or any number of Democrats.
We find it scary that the Democratic and terrorist game plans are indistinguishable.
. . . We'd have to go back to Benedict Arnold to find Americans as eager as Murtha & Co. to see an American defeat on the battlefield.
They are working on the game plan of al-Qaida's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri. In October 2005, Zawahiri outlined al-Qaida's plan in a letter to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, late head of al-Qaida in Iraq:
"The first stage: Expel the Americans from Iraq. The second stage: Establish an Islamic authority . . . over as much territory as you can spread its power in Iraq . . . in order to fill the void stemming from the departure of the Americans."
John Murtha and his perfidious friends are working on creating that void and completing Zawahiri's first stage. They are the appeasers Churchill warned about who hope that by feeding the Islamofascist tiger, it will eat us last.
See the IBD editorial for poll numbers on those thinking we can win in Iraq. It's much higher than you think! (Ht: Michelle Malkin)
Update 2/22/07 - Rep. Jack Murtha's character, when examined, is found wanting. Read Ann Coulter's article that reminds us of his relationship to receiving bribes from Arabs.