In this video clip, Amy Goodman interviews John Murtha to get his take on Hilary Clinton’s decision to not support his call for troop withdrawal from Iraq.
Yeah, I’m disappointed. I’m not sure why that’s happened. She talked to me after I made my statement, and I see she’s finally calling for Secretary Rumsfeld’s resignation. And I think — I don’t know what the reason she’s decided not to endorse my position, but we’re spending $8 billion a month, $11 million an hour, and there’s so many things we could do. We cannot solve these other domestic problems without redeploying. And with 130,000 troops there for three-and-a-half years, the incidents are getting worse.
Read the entire AlerNet clip HERE.
5 Comments
+ at 9:56 am
God Bless Don Rumsfeld
In the midst of the worst attack on any public figure in recent history, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave a stunning speech on Monday further explaining and defining the current events in Iraq. He received little coverage for the speech with…
+ at 10:32 am
In the words of actress Susan Sarandon, “Hillary is such a disappoint.”
+ at 10:51 am
I strongly disagree that Rumsfeld gave a “stunning speech.”
In fact, if you reread his words and carefully deconstruct them, what he said was, you either agree with the administration’s policies in Iraq (the policy that created a terrorist state where none existed before) or, you’re a fascist.
Such remarks are ill suited to any Defense Secretary and suggest he’s not mentally stable.
+ at 2:52 pm
You know what? If Chelsea got drafted, Sen. Hillary Clinton would become a dove on the Iraq war in 1 minute, but because the war doesn’t touch her personally, she can play GI Jane.
+ at 4:24 pm
Hillary must denounce the war in Iraq and stop playing it safe with idiotic calls for the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld. Otherwise, she will continue to have problems with her political base.