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• Monday, February 19, 2007 05:30 AM

  target: Murtha

  Hume unleashed a deeply angry and purely personal attack on Jack Murtha, all but calling him senile.

  Hume:

  That sound bite from John Murtha suggests that it’s time a few things be said about him...Look, this man has tremendous cache among House Democrats, but he is not — this guy is long past the day when he had anything but the foggiest awareness of what the heck is going on in the world.

  That sounds like to senility to me. But actually that’s just the tip of iceberg of smears against Murtha, and it’s interesting to see just what they are so afraid of. There’s a diary this morning at Kos with lots more quotes, and the wording of the legislation Murtha is proposing. It concludes:

  This potential legislation terrifies the Republicans. They face having to vote against ensuring that our troops are properly trained and equipped before they are sent into battle in Iraq. And after four years of the Republicans looking the other way while the administration over-extended our military, they know that it can't be done. Finally facing the possibility of acting in the best interest of the men and women of our military rather than continuing with their empty, mewling platitudes about supporting the troops, they attack. And the target is squarely on John Murtha's back.

  They have to go after Murtha, because he’s destroying their “support the troops” propaganda. And this is so important to them that Hume can’t even pretend to be a journalist on this topic.

  http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/2/19/12838/2667

  —zack
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