Thursday, January 19, 2006

Looking for context

Does anybody have a link to the full transcript of the Murtha town meeting in which he allegedly said, "I worry about a slow withdrawal which makes it look like there's a victory when I think it should be a redeployment as quickly as possible and let the Iraqis handle the whole thing"?

Since it is clearly in the interest of Americans that terrorists and the Arab world believe we won in Iraq, why would Murtha be worried that we might appear to have won a victory, as if that were somehow a bad thing? Of course, if we appear to have won a victory then that makes it harder for Democrats to get elected after carrying on about how victory was impossible and about how failure has been our constant companion throughout the entire war. If we win in Iraq it is likely to make Murtha personally look especially bad if he really has admitted publicly, "A year ago, I said we can't win this militarily." So the easy explanation is that he wants Bush to fail -- and thus, wants our military to fail and our people to be in greater danger from emboldened terrorists -- so that he won't have to admit that he was wrong and so that his party will have a better chance of recovering power tomorrow. But that would make him despicable scum of the second order (not the first order, which is reserved for actual terrorists), and I hate to think that about anybody, especially on the word of a political enemy indulging in selective quotation.

So does anybody have the complete transcript?

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