Benedict Arnold (January 14, 1741 – June 14, 1801) was a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He is best known for betraying the United States forces and plotting to surrender the American fort at West Point, New York, to the British during the American Revolution. He is perhaps the most famous traitor in the history of the United States.
Looks like Jack Murtha is giving Arnold some serious competition!
http://www.americanthinker.com/2005/11/is_jack_murtha_a_coward_and_a.html
2007-03-14 21:30:53 · 9 answers · asked by Frank 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Yes. He couldn't wait for us to surrender. I think he is shameful - an embarrassment to every soldier and general serving.
2007-03-14 23:35:46 · answer #1 · answered by JudiBug 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't see the comparison.
The article you've linked here claims that all reasonable people favor the policy of fighting terrorism by fighting in Iraq. That is BS. The article claims that anyone who wants to withdraw immediately from Iraq is suffering from moral cowardice. That is BS. You are claiming that Murtha's expression of his opinion that the US should immediately withdraw from Iraq is even worse that B. Arnold's effort to "surrender the American fort at West Point, NY, to the British during the American Revolution." That is positively ridiculous!
I doubt that I have ever before sounded so "liberal" in one of my posts on this site, but I can't help it! I don't want to be a conservative if it means agreeing with this drivel!
2007-03-14 21:52:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
There are many people who think an immediate withdrawal is what we should do. I don't agree with that. I think we need to get out, but doing so tomorrow en masse is not the way to do it. However, I fail to see how any American having the opinion of immediate withdrawal is beng a traitor. It's an unpopular opinion, even among those who protest the mismanagement of this war. But comparing him to Benedict Arnold? Over the top, to say the least.
2007-03-14 21:42:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
No, I think Jack is a good and decent American citizen who is only voicing and voting his conscience, just like all of us who use this forum to express ourselves. If you want a name to fit alongside Benedict Arnold as a traitor, you can use Jane Fonda. Murtha is a war hero.
2007-03-14 21:43:42 · answer #4 · answered by gone 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yeah in situations of national failures politicians could positioned party bickering and politics in basic terms before what's perfect for the folk they govern. How dare he positioned the folk in basic terms before his party! He could have permit it develop into yet another Katrina so hundreds ought to die and be displaced under Obama's watch.
2016-10-02 03:57:22 · answer #5 · answered by marolf 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Murtha is a scumbag, a corrupt official who had connections in the corrupt Arab world, and an insult to the USMC. You want to piss off a Marine, remind him or her Murtha was one (like the left and the MSM would let us forget). It's kinda like reminding the USN that Kerry was an officer.
However, I would still put the people who gave the Soviets our nuclear bomb blueprints above him, but not by much. The issue is, it is not just Murtha. Many in the left/democratic-socialist party have openly aided the enemy. Look at Code-Pink's own website and they brag about how they sent $600k to the terrorists in Falluja. They even name the Democrat Congressman who assisted them through his ties in Jordan!!! Look at www.zombietime.com at what the left is actually saying!!!! Look at Rockefeller and "memogate". Look at Hillary Clinton and Bill's conntections to the Dubai Port deal (Bill was payed by Dubai to represent them to the US and Hillary 'forgot' to list it on her congressional income statement).
And it gets even better (or worse). We had Clinton and Gore exchanging missle technology for campaign cash with China in the 90s. They used a big left-wing donor (CEO of Loral Defense) to give the tech exchanges to China. Now China has anti-sat missles and ICBMs aimed at the USA!!!!
We had Dem congressmen going to Syria in 2003 to give them our deployment plans as our forces went into Iraq. We had Dem cronies (Sandy Berger) steel secret documents from the National Archives and destroy them!!!
Need I go on? I can.
2007-03-14 21:47:38 · answer #6 · answered by cgalloway1973 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
No and that link is to a very biased rant from the right.
Here's something to read that's a little more balanced.
During the 2004 vice presidential debate, when he was asked what he could do about the "deeply divided electorate," Dick Cheney acknowledged that it was a "disappointment," and went on to say that things used to be different. "One of my strongest allies in Congress when I was secretary of defense was Jack Murtha, a Democrat who was chairman of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee."
WHAT? A Republican praising a Democrat?
No longer. Following Murtha's blistering attack Thursday on the Bush administration's war policy, he was asked about comments from the president and vice president calling it "irresponsible" for Democrats to criticize the war. This was Murtha's response: "I like guys who've never been there to criticize us who've been there. I like that. I like guys who got five deferments and never been there, and send people to war, and then don't like to hear suggestions about what needs to be done. I resent the fact on Veterans Day he criticized Democrats for criticizing them."
Tell it like it is Congressman.
2007-03-14 21:51:01 · answer #7 · answered by seattleogre 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Jack Murtha is surpassing Benedict Arnold as the worst traitor for being vocal that America is erroneous for invading Iraq.
2007-03-14 21:36:56 · answer #8 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 1⤊ 5⤋
Murtha is a true patriot. Supremely aware and the fact that distinguishes him in Washington from Bush and his sick crew, SANE and honest.
2007-03-14 21:37:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋