by Douglas DeBono, 2006

ARTICLE ORIGINALLY APPEARED AT StandingOrders.BlogSpot.Com, December 01, 2005

Congressman John Murtha declared the U.S. Army is "broken down and worn out."

Come again? As I remember it, the Iraqi Army surrendered in droves during the first Gulf War.

They were virtually obliterated in the second.

John Murtha has the nerve to suggest that low intensity combat is doing our troops in.

Granted sixteen month deployments are tough, but the American military is not collapsing. Remember World War II, it really got going when the Imperial Japanese Navy bombed Pearl Harbor. The bad guys started that war; we finished it.

Before September 11th, the bad guys were busy starting the current war. They finally got the White House's attention when they brought down the World Trade Center. It is specious to suggest that there was no connection between Saddam's Iraq and the terrorist network attacking American interests around the world.

The peace-at-any-cost democrats wish to forget those hard days when the airplanes did not fly and people watched images of nation's tallest buildings pancaking into a million tons of rubble. Already the images of people jumping from atop the WTC were being purged.

It is hard to believe that the democrats are so blind in their hatred for George Bush that they have placed political gain over national security. However, John Murtha is leading the charge to grasp defeat from the jaws of victory.

It is not the army that is out of gas; it is the political left that is out of ideas and credibility. Untroubled by the facts, they will continue to spew their anti-American lies. Business as usual.