Murtha's madness

NY Daily News:

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... Seldom in the history of the republic has an elected official so delighted in the idea of preventing American troops from doing their jobs, and yesterday the Pennsylvania congressman was practically licking his chops at the prospect of shutting down their funding and stopping them in their tracks. Actual Murtha quote: "They won't have the equipment, they don't have the training and they won't be able to do the work."

Here's a guy you want watching your back when the going gets tough, huh?

But Murtha is just one of the attack dogs on call. Yesterday's House vote is the opening shot in a campaign to thwart the surge - and thus cripple the war effort.

Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and company are not about to vote outright to cut off funding for the war, as that would require political courage, but their legislative committees will have something to say about how $93 billion in combat monies will be spent. And their intention is to attach such fussily strict conditions that increasing troop strength will become impossible.

Well, never mind that Gen. David Petraeus, the new ground commander in Iraq, says he needs these new troops.

Showdown looms. Bush didn't much trouble to stave off passage of yesterday's nonbinding House resolution - what for? - but he must fight tooth and nail against all efforts to block his troop deployments.

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It is time to fight this madness and win the war in Washington as well as the one in Baghdad. It is the Washington front where the enemy is closer to winning.

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