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Ärende: Murtha
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Excellent.  The surrender monkeys are still at it....  If he had any 
real guts he'd propose cutting funding....  That's what he really 
believes.  The libs are determined to turn this into Vietnam and relive 
their glory years.....


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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,252216,00.html

Congressman Murtha Crafts Bill to Prevent Iraq Troop Deployments
Thursday, February 15, 2007

By Greg Simmons

WASHINGTON —  A powerful Democrat and Iraq war foe said he intends to 
introduce legislation in the coming weeks that would effectively end 
President Bush's plans to send 21,500 more troops into Iraq by setting 
limits on which troops can be sent.

Using an unusual medium — a recorded interview posted on the Internet — 
Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., said his bill would prevent troops from being 
sent back to Iraq too soon or too poorly equipped. Troops being sent 
back to Iraq for another tour would have to stay in the United States at 
least one year before being redeployed. The bill would also end "stop-
loss" policies by preventing the president from retaining troops in Iraq 
after their enlistments expire.

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Murtha, who is chairman of the defense subcommittee to the House 
Appropriations Committee, said he is formulating legislation with teeth 
because he doesn't think Bush's plan to send more troops to Baghdad and 
al Anbar province would accomplish the goals of bringing peace to the 
country or returning troops home sooner.

The Bush administration "won't be able to continue. They won't be able 
to do the deployment. They won't have the equipment. They don't have the 
training and they won't be able to do the work," Murtha said in the post 
on the Democrat-friendly Web site MoveCongress.org. "This vote will 
limit the options of the president and should stop this surge."

Murtha's proposed legislation drew a heated response from the House's 
top Republican, Rep. John Boehner of Ohio, who said the bill would "cut 
off funding for troops in harm's way by making sure the reinforcements 
they need to complete their mission in Iraq never arrive."

"While American troops are fighting radical Islamic terrorists thousands 
of miles away, it is unthinkable that the United States Congress would 
move to discredit their mission, cut off their reinforcements, and deny 
them the resources they need to succeed and return home safely," Boehner 
said in a statement.

"The American people will not support a strategy that involves pulling 
the rug out from under American troops in the combat zone by cutting off 
their reinforcements and forcing them to face the enemy without our full 
support," Boehner added.

Murtha said the legislation would not necessarily deprive the 
administration of money but would redirect it, and it would be crafted 
to protect the troops, not harm them.

"We need to make sure that everybody understands we're going to support 
the troops. We're going to give the troops everything they need. We're 
not going to .. make any of them vulnerable," Murtha said. "But we're 
going to make darn sure that they have what they need before they go 
over."

By crafting legislation with those goals in mind, Murtha said, "that 
stops the surge for all intents and purposes."

The Pennsylvania Democrat added that he is also considering language in 
the legislation that would close the military prisons at Guantanamo Bay 
and Abu Ghraib, and the bill might include a provision requiring the 
president to get approval from Congress before taking any military 
action against Iran.

Murtha said his legislation would be added the defense appropriations 
bill, and he plans on submitting it in mid-March before the House 
Appropriations Committee.

Murtha's appearance on the Web site was part of a broader push to gain 
support of a troop withdrawal from Iraq. He also taped a message to be 
played before 1,200 planned viewings of the antiwar film "The Ground 
Truth" on Thursday. The viewings are part of a grassroots effort 
organized by MoveOn.org to lobby Congress for legislation blocking the 
troop surge.


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