Q&A With Congess: Democrats Can’t Defend Murtha’s Zarqawi Spin
by Amanda B. Carpenter
Democrats on Capitol Hill last week could not defend remarks by Rep. John Murtha (D.-Pa.), their party’s leading advocate of withdrawing from Iraq, who claimed on CNN that the operation that resulted in the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi could have been carried out without U.S. troops on the ground.
The U.S. military action involved far more than merely bombing Zarqawi’s hideout.
On June 8, Maj. Gen. William Caldwell first described the operation in a nationally televised briefing. “What everybody needs to understand is the strike last night did not occur in a 24-hour period,” said Gen. Caldwell. “It truly was a very long, painstaking, deliberate exploitation of intelligence, information gathering, human sources, electronic signal intelligence that was done over … many, many weeks, that led us last night to that target.”
“Immediately after killing Zarqawi,” Caldwell said, “we then conducted 17 simultaneous raids within Baghdad proper and just on the outskirts.” Those raids led to a “treasure trove” of intelligence that is “presently being exploited and utilized for further use.”
That night on CNN, Murtha told anchor John Roberts: “Now, this could have happened from the outside. People say, you see, we stayed in there. No, this was from the air, two bombs were dropped. So there’s no question — from an F-16. So there’s no question about this, it could have happened from outside.’
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June 19th, 2006 at 11:55 pm
I don’t know. Perhaps the man is just senile or something. If that’s the case, then at least there would be an excuse for this sort of crap. If that is not the case, however, then this former Marine is truly despicable.
It seems that some Democrats are scared to death that we might actually succeed in helping the people of Iraq stabilize their nascent democracy. That thought has got to be quite frightening to certain individuals, although they would never admit such a horrendous thing.
Of course, they don’t have to, because their words are abundantly clear. What else is one to believe, based upon their own inability to find anything positive in any of the news coming out of Iraq? They are not just pessimistic on this issue, they are in complete denial as to any of our progress. What a disgrace!
June 20th, 2006 at 2:23 pm
Trinity, I would not have any problem with Murtha’s position in Iraq IF, and that is a big IF he was sincere about his concern for the troops.
Your statement “based upon their own inability to find anything positive” is dead on.
I’m going to post a link on the top of the site a briefing by Lt. Gen. David H. Petraeus “Observations From Soldiering in Iraq.”
Everybody is focusing on WAR, WAR, WAR, and totally avoiding any of the other positives out of Iraq.