[33girl]

I'm a former resident of Murtha's district.

The ONLY reason he spoke up is because he's been there for so long and brings so much pork to the district, he could basically get up there and say he's a Nazi and eats puppies for breakfast and still get voted into office time after time. If this was 25 years ago and he didn't have the seniority, he never would have opened his mouth. Because there are LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS of guys in the service from his district, lots of people that will see this as an attack on the servicemen and lots of Dems that are only Dems because their parents were - who are more Republican than some Republicans.

Whether I agree with his position or not is immaterial, but he's not this paragon of courage some are making him out to be.