Murtha continues to pressure Bush administration on Iraq

From Crosswalk.com:

In a letter to President Bush Wednesday, Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman John Murtha renewed his call for a withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq and warned that the United States was "in danger of breaking our military."

Murtha wrote that Iraq "is not the center for the global war on terrorism" and that Iraqi forces do not need American troops to deal with al-Qaeda in Iraq. "I believe the Iraqis will force them out or kill them after U.S. troops are gone," he wrote.

"Our military presence is the single most important reason why the Iraqis have tolerated the foreign terrorists," Murtha wrote. Those foreign terrorists, the congressman asserted in his letter to the president, "account for less than 7 percent of the insurgency." He added that "the Iraqis are against a foreign presence in Iraq of any kind."

The Democrats really shot themselves in the foot by having Virginia governor Tim Kaine give that weak Democratic rebuttal to the president's state of the union address. It should have been a no brainer for them to use Jack Murtha. A lot of americans don't even know who Tim Kaine is. Most know Jack Murtha from his recent criticism of President Bush's Iraqi war policy. The choice of Murtha alone would have guaranteed a huge audience that would tune in to the Democrats rebuttal. The media would have gone into a frenzy over it.

The Democrats yet again managed to snatch defeat out of the hands of victory. The big media story is how weak the Democrats appeared which plays right into the hands of the White House. They've been painting the Democrats as weak all along and here the Democrats help them. The Democrats just don't seem to know how to win. Maybe if they would listen to many of the liberal bloggers they'd see some positive results. Their current strategy sure isn't working very well.