You really need to build your web site if you want to post a book like that. Almost no one is going to read past the first paragraph before they move on to the next comment.

What position did Jack Murtha serve his country in the military and what position did Raging Anura serve his position in the military.

I am still wondering how a battalion staff officer managed to see combat. It was probably quite the surprise. I doubt very much that he has a clue what the line troops are thinking.

These are line troops that are willingly signing up during a war. There are even a large number that are reenlisting. 24.8 thousand or so the first 6 months of 2004. It sounds to me like a lot of those troops are thinking like Raging Anura.

To start: “Not counting the fact that all evidence indicates that Karl Rove’s office is not in New Hampshire”
Shows a nice little bit of entirely missing the fact that the speech Murtha was responding to was given in, you guessed it, New Hampshire. You might have caught that fact if you’d have read the deeply elusive allusion disclosed in THE FIRST TWO SENTENCES: “He’s in New Hampshire. He’s making a political speech.”

While this speaks volumes of the careful analysis you did of what he said, I’ll push on.

You don’t have to parse Murtha’s statements that carefully to catch that he’s saying that a politician with absolutely nothing to lose should offer more of a plan than “stay the course”, which is open-ended and provides no road map for ending a conflict which is costing America’s young their lives. As for the sitting in an air-conditioned studio, I think after 37 years of service, and being of ripe old age of 74 he’s done his duty to the military already.

It also ignores the speech which inspired this response. The speech in which Rove, yet another draft dodger (though, I’ll give him credit for at least finding out where in the lottery he was before getting a deferment, unlike Cheney or Bush’s defacto deferment) is attacking Kerry and Murtha for being cowards who’ll run at the first sign of trouble. Of course, those he’s attacking actually DID serve, and actually DID see combat. This is so brazenly hypocritical it’s unbearable. It also shows a common tactic: take your opponent’s advantages and pretend they’re somehow a disadvantage, whilst claiming your disadvantage as an advantage. A tactic I have to show disgusted respect for when it’s so painfully successful in the media. It also is an attack based entirely on the idea that a politician should never, ever, ever change their minds based on the changing face of reality. A mind-numbingly stupid idea, to say the least.

Finally: “Congressman Murtha one one basic truth he may have blissfully overlooked: his star may be bronze, but silence is golden.”

You have GOT to be kidding. If a congressman in a time of war isn’t supposed to be talking about the war in progress, who the heck is supposed to be? I could sure rant on, but this is already longer than it should be. I’m not a Democrat, but I’m one of those “crazy far left fringe liberals” (who are tremendously common for how crazy, far and fringe it is), and I’m willing to admit when a liberal says something inappropriate and stupid. You might consider doing the same.