Video: Murtha lays out the slow-bleed strategy
posted at 9:03 am on February 21, 2007 by Allahpundit
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This is being advertised on its YouTube page as a message to MoveOn.org but I can’t find any evidence of that except the author’s bare assertion. No matter. The creepy takeaway will please war opponents of every stripe:
Our troops are caught in the middle of an Iraqi civil war that only the Iraqi people can solve themselves.
As fragrant euphemisms go, you can do a lot worse than “solve.” Jarhead-turned-director J.D. Johannes examines that poll posted yesterday at Drudge and wondering what the backlash might be like — for Democrats — if Grandpa Simpson here has his way:
Johannes is right, though, to commend Murtha for his shrewdness as a tactician. Bryan’s already written about the cleverness of the slow bleed strategy, but one point which (I think) hasn’t been made is how it comports with the left’s baseline assumption of soldiers as victims. That was Kerry’s point in his botched joke, it was Rangel’s point in framing conscription in terms of class warfare, it was Murtha’s point last year when he basically blamed Bush for the Haditha killings by attributing them to the suspects’ “fatigue,” and now here it is again in the concept of insufficient “military readiness.” I’m surprised they haven’t used the word “victim” more in their talking points on this. “Bring the victims home,” “Victims out now,” etc. I’m sure they will in time. Something to look forward to.
Make sure you follow Johannes’s link to the Examiner piece about which party ultimately reaped the whirlwind for defeat in Vietnam.
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WE need to fly in about 200 Iraqis and have them each speak to the Congress and the Senate, and have them tell us, unscripted, what they want us to do. WE need to get our representatives to listen not only to us, but to those who would bear the gravest of circumstances should we pull out too soon. We need to get our elected representatives to understand that the cost of defeat and failure, is much higher than the cost of our soldiers lives in fight to defeat terrorism, and islamic extremism. Because should we fail, and fall back in shame and defeat, surely they will come here to the United States, and we will lose countless lives. 9/11 will look like a small loss compared to the havok the terrorists could reap unabated on our own soil. I live in New York State, and I am sending letters out to each of my representatives and senators (ha!) in the hope they will listen. Everyone who says they don’t want us to lose should do this. We have to get them to understand.
The question is…can we?
DakRoland on February 21, 2007 at 9:16 AM
Murtha . . . the epitome of a narcissitic loser.
rplat on February 21, 2007 at 9:22 AM
Dotty.
CrimsonFisted on February 21, 2007 at 9:31 AM
SOMEBODY GET THIS GUY A DIAPER FOR HIS FACE.
And call the men in the little white coats.
He’s GONE.
seejanemom on February 21, 2007 at 9:36 AM
I like that idea DakRoland, but if the MSM did their job and reported on all the aspects of the war rather than decide what should or should not be reported (to bash, or not to bash Bush), we wouldn’t have to bring Iraqis before congress to testify.
No, the likes of CNN and NBC in particular are hell bent on portraying this war with every negative slant imaginable. To listen to them, you would think this was the first war with casualties, with soldiers killed by friendly fire, with innocent civilians caught in the exchange of gunfire and with a handful of undisciplined soldiers losing their cool with an enemy who refuses to fight in the open, preferring to blow-up our soldiers and Iraqi civilians with hidden IEDs. Lest we forget, War is Hell. It is hell whether we win or lose. My preference, fight it and win it.
The MSM, complicit with the Democrats, WANT defeat, WANT failure for Bush, WANT to put our troops into the perilous position of being underfunded. They don’t give a sh*t about the plight of Iraqis or the civil war they themselves are fueling with their biased reporting. It is all about regaining power for the Democrats, no matter the cost to our troops, our country, our security or to the Iraqi people.
Murtha, aka Admiral Stockdale revisited, is their hero in this cause. He will get the press, his insane logic will be in the headlines and the MSM reporters located in the midst of the battle, will remain in the safety of the Green Zone never venturing out into the world of the Iraqi people to seek out and find the truth. They don’t want us to know the truth. In a twisted turn of fate, it turns out they are the deciders manipulating the uninformed masses, and they have chosen defeat over victory.
If they did their job, if they loved our country, if they supported our troops and our president in this war against those who have vowed to destroy us, who knows …. we might have already won by now. Telling the enemy we are weak, we will run, our soldiers are cold-blooded killers and our president is a liar hasn’t helped our cause, but it sure has hell has emboldened our enemies.
Traitors all.
fogw on February 21, 2007 at 10:02 AM
Well, one thing is for certain. Murtha knows how to make OBL and Ahmadinejad two very happy people.
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GT on February 21, 2007 at 10:02 AM
“WE need to fly in about 200 Iraqis and have them each speak to the Congress and the Senate”
That would be fantastic … on CSPAN too. The American public would soak up whatever they say like a sponge. Of course the left couldn’t say anything against them because they have “brown skin”. They’d be paralyzed.
darwin on February 21, 2007 at 10:05 AM
Traitor
Wade on February 21, 2007 at 10:08 AM
He’s “Bananas” Jack.
Somewhere, a glue factory beckons.
JammieWearingFool on February 21, 2007 at 10:13 AM
FogW…
Case in point, on yesterdays MSN lead story, they talked about the attack on the Police Compound that killed 2 Americans….
But never mentioned enemy casulties…
All loss, no victory…
It would be like talking about the Superbowl, and only mentioning the score from the loosing side…. constantly…
Romeo13 on February 21, 2007 at 10:18 AM
This guy would have been reduced to nothing but growing tomatoes in his back yard years ago if it wasn’t for the protective bubble provided by the partisan, enabling MSM. If they were even 25% of impartial, they would have turned the light on him and allowed the the American people know exactly what they had with him. In their dishonest hands, his ridiculous frothings become worked into gems of wisdom. Gems like zirconium. All razzle-dazzle, but no value.
naliaka on February 21, 2007 at 10:23 AM
Where’s Pinky? I need a vomit bucket.
KelliD on February 21, 2007 at 10:30 AM
Murtha can stuff his patheticly feigned and thinly veiled attempt to voice support for our troops right up his fat corrupt ass!
Viper1 on February 21, 2007 at 10:32 AM
His last statement shows that he is insane and out of touch with reality.
And as the ethnic cleansing begins after we leave, how will our credibility as a nation stand? How was our credibility after we left Vietnam? How was our credibility after Mogadishu?
Mallard T. Drake on February 21, 2007 at 11:04 AM
Someone explain to me, how, the guy who was defeated as majority leader, is now carrying all the water for the democrats. Does the majority leader agree with Murtha on this? Where is Bush, telling people what this is? Have I heard a speech about the “slow bleed” – nope. Either the republicans have turned painfully incompetent (as normal) or they are letting the democrats hang themselves. I’m hoping its the latter, but fear its the former.
lorien1973 on February 21, 2007 at 11:08 AM
This man disgusts me to no end. I would spit at his feet if I ever met him.
The Donks and libs offer no solution toward victory. They don’t even offer how exactly “things have gone wrong” other than it has taken over 3 1/2 years and 3,000 slain soldiers to get this far. I would have some respect for them if the debate was over the different means to victory rather than victory vs. defeat.
The Bush adminsitration hasn’t erred in executing the war so much as they have erred in the PR campaign to keep American support for this mission strong.
Where are all the Brit Humes when we need them the most.
Mallard T. Drake on February 21, 2007 at 11:11 AM
no. we can’t. they dont care what anyone thinks.
One Angry Christian on February 21, 2007 at 11:56 AM
I’d like to give him a slow bleed…
what a jerk
Viewtifulgare on February 21, 2007 at 11:59 AM
Nothing more to be said on my part, except for
, for some reason, I am sold out again, I will put you down for dozen on back order……
PinkyBigglesworth on February 21, 2007 at 12:03 PM
The level of cynicism that Murtha routinely displays absolutely beggars belief. How could this assclown possibly believe the sh*t that comes out of his own mouth? What’s more, how much longer can the MSM ignore what would be totally obvious if Murtha was a Republican – that this man is disconnected from reality to such a degree that it calls into question his fitness for office.
It’s not that he’s unpatriotic – it’s that he’s in the early stages of dementia. This man’s mental health needs to be called into question.
Enrique on February 21, 2007 at 12:34 PM
I am litterly beyond myself after watching this stupid man blather on.
If he and his “puppet masters” think that they will slide “slow bleed” by the American public without opposition, they are mistaken.
The way to deal with this is to shine the light of truth on it as Johannes says. We must expose the anti-war groups that are behind this. We must expose the “slow bleed” strategy as the tactics of defeat. Finally, we must help build a backlash to this that guarantees that the Democrats are shunned as a party for decades to come.
georgej on February 21, 2007 at 12:58 PM
One again we have a Democrat worried about putting troops “in harm’s way” while forgetting that this is why we have the military. We don’t train and equip troop to keep them out of harm’s way, we train and equip them so they have a greater chance of survival while “in harm’s way.”
Murtha and the rest of the Democrats have forgotten what being in the military actually involves, being placed in dangerous situations to protect innocent lives like those of the Iraqi people, and must think of it as a federal jobs program for the poor.
Murtha and the rest the democrats show that the really do not support the military when they make asinine statements like “keeping our troop in harm’s way.”
To those like honora that say we have “failed in Iraq”, you can not fail in combat unless you surrender the battlefield to the enemy. This is what Murtha and the rest of the “bring our troop home” crowd wants the President to do, surrender the battlefield.
RedinBlueCounty on February 21, 2007 at 1:16 PM
Murtha has the eyes of a very earnest moron. God, he looks stupid. I’ll leave it to others to make the more substantive points.
Kralizec on February 21, 2007 at 1:36 PM
I support our troops, and I support a phased redeployment of Murtha to a nursing home.
E L Frederick (Sniper One) on February 21, 2007 at 1:53 PM
I’ve been waiting for the results of that question since all this noise about running away from Iraq statred!
I think it would be safe to say that 100% of the people want out of Iraq. But as this poll shows, it matters what the consequences of leaving will be.
csdeven on February 21, 2007 at 3:01 PM
The only message sent was that RINOs are not welcome nor trusted.
Is that what the voters told everyone last November? Really? It wasn’t a presidential election; nobody votes about Iraq when choosing a congressman or senator.
Lie #1. Things are HARD in Iraq, there are still ENEMIES in Iraq, but things are not out of control. Things were more out of control in occupied Germany after WWII. And oh yeah, we have had an unending military presence in Germany since then. What’s your plan for withdrawing from Frankfurt?
It is people like you who have tried so hard to make things not work, and a willing media who have painted things as if they have not worked. But it’s really Lie #2.
Less than half a minute into the clip and I can’t take any more of Traitor Murtha than that.
Freelancer on February 21, 2007 at 8:28 PM
Going………..Going…………..Gone!!!!!!!
NEMETI IN SYRACUSE on February 21, 2007 at 8:37 PM
I won’t actually say I hate that old bastard, but I’m real close.
reaganaut on February 21, 2007 at 8:51 PM
It takes an enormous amount of gall to say with a straight face to the American people that cutting and running is the way for America to restore its credibility. Democrats have no conscience.
Maxx on February 21, 2007 at 8:55 PM
Well his brain is obviously somewhere else so Phase I is complete.
91Veteran on February 21, 2007 at 11:33 PM
Are any posters here a constituent of Murtah who can explain how that creep gets elected? Murtha is a disgrace, and he is dangerous.
Phil Byler on February 22, 2007 at 12:02 AM
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