{"id":2479,"date":"2006-02-28T10:33:31","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T14:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2006-02-28T10:33:31","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T14:33:31","slug":"video-rep-murtha-we-have-become-the-enemy-and-our-troops-are-the-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2479","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO – Rep. Murtha: ‘We have become the enemy and our troops are the targets’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest blogged by David Edwards<\/a><\/b> of Veredictum.com<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

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\nVideo in Streaming Flash format…<\/a>
\nVideo in Windows Media format…<\/a><\/p>\n

Rep. John Murtha was interviewed on yesterday’s edition of CNN Situation Room<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Transcript<\/a>:<\/p>\n

MURTHA:<\/b> They have to settle this themselves. They have to settle the underlying problems which have caused the insecurity there. <\/p>\n

For instance, water supply, the electricity supply, the oil supply. All those things are prewar level. And there’s no way they’re going to settle. <\/p>\n

Unemployment is 60 percent. There’s no way they’re going to settle this by talking about it. It’s not rhetoric.<\/p>\n

And the military has done everything they can do. They have done a marvelous job. Now it’s up to the political leaders to take hold of this thing and settle it themselves. <\/p>\n

And, you know, I keep getting different reports about the Iraqis being ready to take over, and then the next day they say there’s no battalions ready. But the Iraqis themselves have more confidence in their police and in their army than they do in the United States Army. <\/p>\n

We have become the enemy, and our troops, unfortunately, have become the targets. So it’s time to redeploy our troops.<\/b><\/div>\n

Related:<\/b> Zogby poll via ThinkProgress – 72% of U.S. Troops Want Out of Iraq Within One Year.<\/a> 29% of U.S. troops serving in Iraq favor “immediate” withdrawal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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