John Murtha: U.S. Top Threat to World Peace

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John Murtha: U.S. Top Threat to World Peace

by John Little on 26/06/2006

Up till now I’ve kind of regarded Osama bin Murtha as an annoying but ultimately pathetic character. A guy who’s been willing to trade, with a few outrageous comments, honor for a little attention. After yesterday’s comments I’d like to see him committed:

American presence in Iraq is more dangerous to world peace than nuclear threats from North Korea or Iran, Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., said to an audience of more than 200 in North Miami Saturday afternoon.

Murtha was the guest speaker at a town hall meeting organized by Rep. Kendrick B. Meek, D-Miami, at Florida International University’s Biscayne Bay Campus. Meek’s mother, former Rep. Carrie Meek, D-Miami, was also on the panel.

War veterans, local mayors, university students and faculty were in the Mary Ann Wolfe Theatre to listen to the three panelists discuss the war in Iraq for an hour.

I guess the next step, assuming Murtha wants full Hanoi Jane status, is for him to travel to Iraq so that he can be filmed wielding a beheading knife or packing an IED. Just a little something to show he’s down with the peeps. Anything is possible at this point.

Tim Saler at No End But Victory makes an appeal:

John Murtha is absolutely intolerable. His claim is absolutely, one-hundred-percent preposterous. This man sees evil in the United States and believes that it is a greater threat to world peace than rogue states like North Korea and Iran. And, most remarkably, he intends to run for a top leadership position in the U.S. House if Democrats win a majority this November. On behalf of myself only and not No End But Victory, I urge you to find out what you can do to make sure that day never comes.

It’s All Downhill From Here calls it “Rooting for the bad guy“:

Of course we’re the top threat to world peace if you happen to be a totalitarian dictator, terrorist, despot or someone who thinks those people are the good guys like Representative Murtha. Someone should give him a shirt or bumper sticker that reads “I love terrorists”.

Adam Graham’s found a new job for Murtha:

While I appreciate his service, he’s doing more to compromise American interests than he ever did to help them as a soldier. He does not belong in Congress. The fact is that Al-Qaeda doesn’t have an American propoganda ministry. They don’t need one as long as they have Jack Murtha.

Bill Quick wants video (me too) and adds:

They. Just. Can’t. Keep. From. Destroying. Themselves.

The Times of India picked up this story as well. It’s global.

I guess none of this is sitting too well with the folks over at the Agonist who think they’re hot on the trail of some kind of Swiftboat conspiracy. Murtha continues to open mouth and insert foot. Where’s the conspiracy?

Update:
The Sun-Sentiel has issued a correction for this story:

“An article in Sunday’s editions misinterpreted a comment from U.S. Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., at a town hall meeting in North Miami on Saturday. In his speech, Murtha said U.S. credibility was suffering because of continued U.S. military presence in Iraq , and the perception that the U.S. is an occupying force. Murtha was citing a recent poll, by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, that indicates a greater percentage of people in 10 of 14 foreign countries consider the U.S. in Iraq a greater danger to world peace than any threats posed by Iran or North Korea.”

Murtha’s reaction can be found here.

My assessment doesn’t require a correction.

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There are 8 comments in this article:

26/06/2006chancuff says:

“American presence in Iraq is more dangerous to world peace than nuclear threats from North Korea or Iran, Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., said to an audience of more than 200 in North Miami Saturday afternoon.”

This goofy story is being investigated as I write. Murtha never said any such thing, not in Miami, not anywhere else, not ever. Look for Arizona Star and Sun-Sentinel to publish the appropriate corrections in their papers. Knight Rider picked up this story over the weekend. They’ll drop it like a hot potato in the next couple hours. Elizabeth Baier, the author of this story, will be wondering what the big deal is about making up stuff and reporting it as news. If anyone here has contacts at The National Enquirer, perhaps now would be a good time to email her. I suspect she’s going to need a new job soon. Write condolences and “buck up!” note to her at: ebaier@sun-sentinel.com
26/06/2006Herschel Smith says:

Good coverage on Murtha. I too see him as an unhinged fanatic. But he and the left are working hand in glove to defeat the U.S., whether willingly or as dupes. We will see much more of the propaganda war with many “charges” being brought against our boys in the coming weeks and months. See:

http://www.captainsjournal.com/2006/06/23/new-taliban-al-qaida-strategy/
26/06/2006Herschel Smith says:

I made my comment (#2) prior to reading comment #1 where the author claims that this will be retracted. Let me think. Does this change my opinion of Murtha?

Hmmmm …

Nope. I still think he is a unhinged fanatic. “Yea, yea … thats it, let’s redeploy them to … um … let’s see … the land of Oz. Yea … that’s it. That way they can take care of … where did I say? Oh yea. The tin man. Yea. Thats it.”

Nice try.
29/06/2006lefty says:

are you going to update your post now that the sun sentinel has retracted its eroneous quote attributed to mr. murtha?

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/06/28/murtha-retraction/
2/07/2006chancuff says:

If you notice, the Arizona Star article you site above remains the same, if you click it.

Here’s where it gets whacky. Note that the Star sites the Sun-Sentinel’s Elizabeth Baier as the author. Just try to find that original article, this Arizona Star web site has published. Happy hunting!
5/07/2006chancuff says:

As of the date and time stamp of this posting the following is correct:
The original first paragraph written by Elizabeth Baier at the Sun-Sentinel has been removed. Since their original correction to their story and my constant vigilance and the constantly updated reporting at theinfozone.net, they have rewritten this entire original article.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-ctownhall25jun25,0,7119684.story

What distinguishes this as unique is that though newspapers certainly update stories all the time, but when doing so, they are required by standard journalism practice to make clear it’s a revision, stating prominently at the top this story is a revision and updating the date of the article to the date of the revision. They have done neither.

Any impression created by this posting that this indicates that the Sun-Sentinel is covering up what they started by making all the uproar of this week over something that “never happened” is not my intent here. (legal disclaimers have become necessary)

Wait until you hear the new development today. It’s a doozy.

Cliff Hancuff
The World of Journalism Is Flat, Too
7/07/2006chancuff says:

There are a whole lot more things going on behind the scenes with this story than have yet been reported, anywhere. Quite a few people far beyond Ms. Baier and her editor Ms. Rosenhause have shot themselves in the foot.

Write Diana Irey, John Murtha’s Republican oponent, asking her about the letter I sent her today.

email: Diana@Irey.com

Cliff Hancuff
The World Of Journalism Is Flat, Too
29/08/2006chancuff says:

The saga continues …
http://factcheck.org/article415.html

This may help everyone understand my contempt for today’s Republican Party.

This is the origination of this Lincoln “quote”:

http://www.arthuravenuebronx.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1472

that ran in INSIGHT magazine

http://www.insightmag.com/

which is part of News World Communications (see bottom of page in link above) a wholly owned political mouthpiece of the Unification Church, the “Moonies”.

http://www.mediaowners.com/company/newsworld.html

I wrote Diana Irey offering her documented proof of what Lincoln never said, CCing all her campaign staff on, first on July 14th, and again on August 4th.

I wrote her, and her staff, repeatedly warning them of the consequences of their inaction. If you’d like verification, write her campaign manager of record (Bill Pascoe, former Press Secretary of the RNC, is calling the shots behind the scenes) at jason@irey.com and ask him about my repeated warnings.

If you choose to write, use this as the Subject Line “It’s showtime.”. He’ll know exactly what that means.

When all these efforts failed, I contacted factcheck.org with this very same evidence. Brooks Jackson was able to see what Ms. Irey, and her entire campaign staff refused to.

He published this, last Friday:

http://factcheck.org/article415.html
(note the video clip in the top right corner)

I would like to tell you there’s quite some honor to Bill Pascoe’s “within hours” response here:

http://www.irey.com/news/contentview.asp?c=35681

In conclusion, it warrants mentioning how this “Moonie” Lincoln quote came into common use, without any questions to its authenticity.

Use Google to do a search for this quote. Go back 10-15 pages and you’ll find the older dates of its use. You’ll discover it was the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth who brought this fiction to life within weeks of Dr. Waller’s article.

You will find Larry Bailey of bootmurtha.com has dusted off this Moonie quote and is using it for his “gimme’ your money” scheme, all over the net, including this gem written the chairman of Bailey’s PAC, in which it is used twice, for emphasis:

http://www.thereaganwing.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=PagEd&file=index&page_id=538

It’s no accident that Diana Irey was boons-swaggled into using it.

Bill Pascoe and Kelli Phiel, the folks Robert Novak refers to as her “handlers” in this article:

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15820&o=ENPR003

“Irey, who looks quite young, is a bit green, but her handlers see her as great raw material.”

I’ll give a dollar to anyone who can decipher the grammar, syntax, period occurring in the middle of the sentence, and random capitalization that occurs in the last sentence of this article.

If you are unfamiliar with who Pascoe and Phiel are, let me introduce you.

Pascoe is the gent who hung tough with Jack Ryan, even after Dennis Hastert rightfully withdrew all GOP support for him in 2004, when Ryan was exposed for insisting his wife go to sex clubs with him and have sex in public.

“Jack Ryan is in the race to stay,” said Bill Pascoe, Ryan’s spokesman.”

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0406250361jun25,1,933334.story

Pascoe also the one who called Alan Keyes and convinced him to move from Maryland to Illinois, to replace Ryan. I’ll let you Google that and for Kelli Phiel’s history working with Pascoe in the 2004 election.

I wish I could tell you that I’ve not written Diana Irey repeatedly about her “handlers” past, but I cannot make that claim.

Buzz Patterson used this “Moonie” quote at a chapter heading in his book, Reckless Disregard. If you own a copy, check page 65. He was not the only retired military man to adopt this Republican operatives invention. Ollie North was too:

http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0974579335&id=dQipO2AmNrUC&pg=PA113&lpg=PA113&dq=oliver+north+lincoln+%22congressmen+who+willfully%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&sig=fBfOMtFSxlavNGKBMbFtreMEwfo

Least you wonder about my interest in all this …

My family settled in what is now the 12th District of Pennsylvania in 1820, and have lived there ever since.

My great, great grandfather, after whom I am named in honor of, served in Lincoln’s Union Army. He made the supreme sacrifice for our country on March 23, 1862, serving Stonewall Jackson he only defeat in the Civil war.

Lincoln was, to borrow a title, “A Uniter”

When some goofball Republican operative abuses the reputation of our greatest Republican president, in a Moonie publication no less, for the expressed purpose of political gain for today’s Republican Party … it troubles me.

I suspect it will trouble you, too.

Cliff Hancuff
The World of Journalism Is Flat, Too

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