It makes me wonder if the Sacramento Bee screwed this up on purpose.

Chaos erupted when Rep. Jean Schmidt, R-Ohio, quoted an Ohio legislator who she said had called her to protest Murtha’s stance. “He asked me to send Congress a message: Stay the course. He also asked me to send Congressman Murtha a message: that cowards cut and run; Marines never do,” she said.

Two small words were incorrect in that story.
Ohio Legislator.
This was on the front page of their newspaper. Reading that an Ohio legislator called the Congressman a coward, well, thats just politics.

The trouble is, everyone else reports it as a Marine Colonel who was in Iraq. That changes the whole statement, and what I think is the singular focus of that debate.

The whole “we must save our troops” line is complete garbage. The troops would surely love to come home, but they realize what is more important.

One more tidbit:

Schmidt, who recently won the seat as house representative for Ohio’s 2nd District in a special election, was opposed by Democrat Paul Hackett, a lawyer and Marine reservist, who sought the withdrawal of troops from Iraq.

All the lefty blogs are going on about how shameful it is that they’re going after a veteran and calling Murtha a coward or traitor.

Just because you’re a veteran doesn’t give you a free pass in politics. George Bush is a veteran. Doesn’t stop any of them from going after him now does it? So Murtha got a few purple hearts. That’s great. I’ll counter that card with a 7 year POW in VietNam with the opposite opinion.

Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas, a 29-year Air Force veteran who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam for nearly seven years, called Murtha’s position unconscionable and irresponsible. “We’ve got to support our troops to the hilt and see this mission through,” he said.

Here’s another…

Because Rep. Murtha is a Former Marine Vietnam vet, no one is allowed to say anything against him. Well, guess what? I’m a Former Marine Vietnam vet, and there are thousands of others like me. I’m not impressed. When a member of our government makes a speech stating that we should pull our troops out, leave no one in country but station some in the general vicinity, he knows before he stood up that his words will be on Al Jeezera before he sits down again.

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