Murtha The Moonbat, Part 243

Once again our beloved John "Jack" Murtha sticks his aged wingtip into his aged mouth and comes out with this:

American presence in Iraq is more dangerous to world peace than nuclear threats from North Korea or Iran, U.S. Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., said to a crowd of more than 200 in North Miami Saturday afternoon.

Murtha was the guest speaker at a town hall meeting organized by U.S. Rep. Kendrick B. Meek, D-Miami, at Florida International University's Biscayne Bay Campus. Meek's mother, former U.S. Rep. Carrie Meek, D-Miami, was also on the panel.

Murtha is another Democrat who, perhaps at one time was a clear-headed thinker, but now says that the war cannot be won militarily and needs political solutions. He said our 100,000 troops in Iraq should be pulled out immediately, and deployed to peripheral countries like Kuwait. Tactically that makes excellent sense; let's delay our response time as much as possible to Iraq when it begins to slip into flames as Sunnis fight Shiites over alignments and allegiances with the US against Islamists. I'm sure, as many Left leaners believe, that once we leave "bygones will be bygones" and all will play well in the sandbox and never run with scissors.

"We do not want permanent bases in Iraq," Murtha told the audience. "We want as many Americans out of there as possible."

It would appear that a number of Democrats enjoy comparing Iraq to Vietnam; there is one very close similarity that I should like to point out:

Like Vietnam, should we completely pull out of Iraq prior to as much stabilization of its government as we can acquire, there would in all likelihood be killing on the order of the Khmer Rouge reign, from 1975 to 1979, where an estimated 1.5 million to 2 million Cambodians were systematically murdered -- after we fled Saigon in Hueys.

History does tend to repeat itself.

And the comparison of the United States to Iran and North Korea possessing nuclear capabilities in terms of a world threat?

Beyond ridiculous.

Moonbat.

BZ