Friday, March 27, 2009

John Murtha, And You Thought It Couldn't, Wouldn't Happen

From militaty.com
"Murtha Award Sparks Vet Outrage
March 26, 2009
Military.com|by Christian Lowe

In one of his last moves before leaving office March 13, then-Navy Secretary Donald Winter quietly awarded 19-term Democratic congressman John Murtha (Pa.) with the service's highest civilian honor."
Murtha Award Sparks Vet Outrage

The primary reason for their ire stems from the congressman's statements in May, 2006, that a squad of Marines who responded to an IED ambush and short firefight in Haditha, Iraq, rampaged through the village, murdering civilians "in cold blood."

What a sham!

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