Murtha says he wouldn't join military now
Rep. John Murtha, a key Democratic voice who favors pulling U.S. troops from Iraq, said in remarks airing on Monday that he would not join the U.S. military today.
A decorated Vietnam combat veteran who retired as a colonel after 37 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, Murtha told ABC News' "Nightline" program that Iraq "absolutely" was a wrong war for President George W. Bush to have launched.
"Would you join (the military) today?," he was asked in an interview taped on Friday.
"No," replied Murtha.
"And I think you're saying the average guy out there who's considering recruitment is justified in saying 'I don't want to serve'," the interviewer continued.
"Exactly right," said Murtha.
Murtha did not respond directly when asked whether a lack of combat experience might have affected the decision-making of Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and their former top deputies.
"Let me tell you, war is a nasty business. It sears the soul," he said, choking up. "And it made a difference. The shadow of those killings stay with you the rest of your life."
What fool would join the military while George Bush and the rest of his Chickenhawk followers were running this country? You'd have to be a fucking complete idiot not to do everything you could possibly to do to discourage your sons and daughters from joining the military.
There's absolutely
NOTHING honorable about the war in Iraq! Oh sure, those young men and women who were shipped there because of all the neocon liars are serving honorably but those who lied and sent them there have
NO honor.
How many members of Congress have children or grandchildren volunteering to go Iraq? How many people pictured here are serving this noble cause in Iraq? What are Bush's two little slutty daughters doing? They've been out of college for a year now and what are
they doing?
I'm a vet and I served proudly but you can bet I've told my sons not join while these Republicans are in office. Fortunately, they're smart enough to know better.
But, as for the children of the Iraq War supporting chickenhawks out there, have your sons and daughters join and become fodder for the lies. Of course you won't do it. You didn't serve when you had the chance and just like then, you're all talk as long as you can hide behind your wife's skirt.
Sign-up or tell your kids to sign up. If this country ever had to wait on republicans to do our battles we'd be speaking the King's English, German or Japanese right now.
Fucking big-mouth pussies!
How many members of Congress have children or grandchildren volunteering to go Iraq? How many people pictured here are serving this noble cause in Iraq? What are Bush's two little slutty daughters doing? They've been out of college for a year now and what are they doing?
I'm a vet and I served proudly but you can bet I've told my sons not join while these Republicans are in office. Fortunately, they're smart enough to know better.
But, as for the children of the Iraq War supporting chickenhawks out there, have your sons and daughters join and become fodder for the lies. Of course you won't do it. You didn't serve when you had the chance and just like then, you're all talk as long as you can hide behind your wife's skirt.
Sign-up or tell your kids to sign up. If this country ever had to wait on republicans to do our battles we'd be speaking the King's English, German or Japanese right now.
Fucking big-mouth pussies!
