John Murtha has a history lesson for Bush over at Huffington Post. The former Marine been right about Iraq all along. He's been viciously attacked and maligned by the right wingers and the media, but his words and predictions have been on target.
Since Murtha began speaking out last November, he has consistently shown a great understanding of the situation in Iraq. In addition, when Murtha speaks, he usually offers two pearls of wisdom that are simple statements, but true. First, Murtha has always maintained that the public was no longer on board with the Bush strategy:
The American public is way ahead of the members of Congress.Murtha has questioned the truth of the rhetoric coming from the Bush administration and he challenged the media to understand that:
Just because the president, just because the White House says there's going to be more terrorism if we withdraw doesn't make it so. He said there's going to be weapons of mass destruction. He said oil was going to pay for it. They said there was an al Qaeda connection. That's not necessarily true.AJ deconstructs Bush's latest spin-a-thon in the post below. He's trying to fool the American people, but they seem to get it this time. A key finding in the latest AP/Ipsos poll confirms both of Murtha's points:
Not everyone agrees the war in Iraq is central to the war on terror, as the Bush administration maintains. Six in 10 polled think there will be more terrorism in this country because the U.S. went to war in Iraq. Some feel strongly that the two wars are separate.Eva Washington gets it. The American people get it. They're ahead of the Bush, Congress and the media -- and they know that just because Bush says something, doesn't make it true.
"They've been successful in the war on terrorism as long as you distinguish between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism," said Eva Washington, a semiretired nurse from Washington, D.C. "We allowed Iraq to become a home to terrorists by going over there."
