The strength of Murtha

Mike Wallace does his best to discredit John Murtha in this CBS interview, but he is not the typical triangulator that Wallace is used to in a democrat. He has too much experience where it counts and too much bravery when it counts to be intimidated or tripped up by circular thinking.

When it was pointed out that president Bush said Mr. Murtha was wrong and that "the terrorists regard Iraq as the central front in their war on terror" he responded with:

""He'’s trying to fight this war with rhetoric. Iraq is not where the center of terrorism is. So when he says we'’re fighting terrorism over there, we're inciting terrorism over there. We're encouraging terror. We'’re destabilizing the area by being over there be‘cause we'’re the targets. He said before there'’s weapons of mass destruction. He said there'’s an al Qaeda connection. There'’s many things he said turned out not to be true. So why would I believe him when he says the things he just - made that statement."


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When you lead when it counts that is real leadership.

If more democrats talked with fearlessness and devotion to their beliefs they would perhaps make modest gains when Republican support decidedly waned.