The Right State

Where is Nancy Pelosi’s military-hating mouthpiece when we need him? John Murtha is a representative from Pensylvania who irresponsibly accused US soldiers in Haditha with murder even before the investigation of the incident had been completed. According to Uncle Jimbo at BlackFive, the soldiers blamed with the killing and covering up the evidence have been exonerated. What most people do not understand that warfare is almost never pretty and sometimes when war is really ugly, civilians die. It is an ugly fact of war, it happens.

Kathleen Parker from the Chicago Tribune has a good commentary on how America’s views on warfare are being used against us.

Americans struggle with the horror of civilian casualties, while insurgent and terrorist forces in Iraq devise ways to effect more, not fewer, civilian deaths. What we deplore, and punish, they celebrate. And replicate. There is a difference, one that is both our strength and our weakness. Though some Americans, like other mortals, are capable of inhumanity, our national conscience compels us to examine the impulses that degrade our character and purpose.

Our attention to moral warfare — always our goal, if not always met — also nourishes our enemies, who suffer no such burden. They know that demoralization and flagging commitment tend to follow our moral introspection.

Americans have never liked civilian casualties and have gone to great lengths to prevent them. Soldiers have endangered themselves in order to protect defenseless Iraqis. Seeing this internal conflict within the Americans, the terrorists have hid among the civilian population in order to create even more casualties.

John Murtha is well aware of this fact. And yet he has continued to besmirch our soldiers’ good names. Murtha’s conduct is typical of liberals of his strip; to hell with the process, blame the soldiers first and foremost. And if the good people who are defending us should be hurt in the process, so be it. As long as Murtha’s standing goes up among his real constituents: the far left.

What I do not understand is why the good people of Pennsylvania continue to reelect this man when he should be defeated by a by someone more responsible. Or at the very least, he should be censured by Congress. The people of Johnstown, Pennsylvania are a good people and are rightfully proud of their soldiers. I would doubt were seriously they know of the vile things their Congressman has been saying about our military.

Kathleen Parker finishes up her commentary with this statement:

Other Haditha investigations may yet lead to findings of guilt in some cases. Meanwhile, second-guessing how Marines should act under hostile fire before the facts are known is not only unfair, but dishonors the immense courage required to survive in the midst of such an incommunicable experience.

Well said. Murtha’s website is predictably silent of the exoneration of these fine soldiers.

Tags: Democrats, Iraq, War //