Murtha Runs His Mouth Again and Gets an Earful!

It started out as what has become the typical Murtha media event. He had been invited to attend VA congressman James Moran Jr's town-hall meeting. While there he remained true to form:

In an emotional two-hour public forum in Arlington last night on the Iraq war, one of the Bush administration's chief critics, Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), renewed his call for an immediate pullout, saying, "We've become the enemy."

Before a crowd of about 600 people that spilled out of the auditorium and into an overflow room and the street, Murtha accused the Pentagon of ignoring a drop in recruitment levels and tolerating such problems in Iraq as low morale and shortages of body armor and other equipment.

"Instead of taking on the real problems, they face it with rhetoric," he said. " 'Murtha's hurting recruiting,' " the congressman said. "They say, 'You're hurting the effort and hurting the troops.' That's what so frustrating to me."

Frequent applause from the mostly liberal crowd followed this garbage. But when it came time for the audience to speak Old Cut-N-Run and Moran had to listen to some soldiers put them in their place.

Sgt. Mark Seavey gave them both an earful:

I keep hearing you say how you talk to the troops and the troops are demoralized, and I really resent that characterization. (applause) The morale of the troops that I talk to is phenomenal, which is why my troops are volunteering to go back, despite the hardships they had to endure in Afghanistan.

"And Congressman Moran, 200 of your constituents just returned from Afghanistan. We never got a letter from you; we never got a visit from you. You didn't come to our homecoming. The only thing we got from any of our elected officials was one letter from the governor of this state thanking us for our service in Iraq, when we were in Afghanistan. That's reprehensible. I don't know who you two are talking to but the morale of the troops is very high."

Later a vietnam vet, General Wagner said it like it is:

I visit Walter Reed [Army Hospital] and talk to the young soldiers with their legs blown off. I know you do, too. I can't find one in a dozen that don't believe that they are fighting for a noble cause and are fighting to go back. And I think it's a disgrace when members of our Congress --just as they did in 1975 when they sold out the south Vietnamese--are selling out our soldiers today in Iraq!

How I wish I could have been at that meeting to hear those brave men speak up while vastly outnumbered by the liberals in the crowd. Congressman Murtha was once a brave soldier and he deserves recognition for that, but his behavior lately and reprehensible statements have made him unworthy to be in the same room with Sgt. Seavey and General Wagner.

Michelle Malkin has video of both Sgt. Seavey and Gen. Wagner.

The Mudville Gazette has a great summary in Murtha vs. the Army.

Black Five: "Rep. Murtha has used up his good will and is rapidly looking at a boot in the a**. When you allow your politics to push you around the bend and declare the military not a fit or decent place to serve you lose any respect I had for your service."