New Murtha smear: Medals undeserved (Swift Boat time). Inevitable.

[Faygo Kid]

I am pissed that they are trying this again, no doubt at Rove, Cheney, Bush's urging. But, here we go. Best be ready for this. Is this a fraudulent news operation? Of course. Is it absurd? Of course. Will Rove use it? Of course.

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=/SpecialReports/archive/200601/SPE20060113a.html

Murtha's War Hero Status Called Into Question
By Marc Morano and Randy Hall
CNSNews.com Staff
January 13, 2006

(CNSNews.com) - Having ascended to the national stage as one of the most vocal critics of President Bush's handling of the war in Iraq, Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman John Murtha has long downplayed the controversy and the bitterness surrounding the two Purple Hearts he was awarded for military service in Vietnam.

Murtha is a retired marine and was the first Vietnam combat veteran elected to Congress. Since 1967, there have been at least three different accounts of the injuries that purportedly earned Murtha his Purple Hearts. Those accounts also appear to conflict with the limited military records that are available, and Murtha has thus far refused to release his own military records.

A Cybercast News Service investigation also reveals that one of Murtha's former Democratic congressional colleagues and a fellow decorated Vietnam veteran, Don Bailey of Pennsylvania, alleges that Murtha admitted during an emotional conversation on the floor of the U.S. House in the early 1980s that he did not deserve his Purple Hearts.

" is putting himself forward as some combat veteran with serious wounds and he's using that and it's dishonest and it's wrong," Bailey told Cybercast News Service on Jan. 9. Murtha served in the Marines on active duty and in the reserves from 1952 until his retirement as a colonel in 1990. He volunteered for service in Vietnam and was a First Marine Regiment intelligence officer in 1966 and 1967.
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1. oh geez...

even if this was true....IT STILL PUTS HIM A HELL OF ALOT CLOSER TO COMBAT THAN EVERYONE IN THIS CHICKENHAWK ADMINISRTATION!!!

[cantstandbush]

2. I hope most truly patriotic Americans get fed up with the Swiftboaters

and let their Congressmen know about their disgust. It is unconscionable that these turds can do this to a decent man like Murtha and uphold someone like Alito and they liar in the WH.