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	Murtha says he wouldn't join military today

adamc

1-3-2006 11:33 AM

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john murtha, military, army, marines, iraq, politics, vietnam veteran

adamc says:

Not a good sign for recruitment efforts. Does anybody know if recruitment figures are signifcantly down or even up since the start of the Iraq war?

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favors pulling U.S. troops from Iraq, said in remarks airing on Monday
that he would not join the U.S. military today.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyid=2006-01-03T135945Z_01_KWA315575_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-USA-MURTHA.xml&rpc=22"><P>A decorated Vietnam combat veteran who retired as a colonel after 37
years in the U.S. Marine Corps, Murtha told ABC News' "Nightline"
program that Iraq "absolutely" was a wrong war for President George W.
Bush to have launched.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyid=2006-01-03T135945Z_01_KWA315575_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-USA-MURTHA.xml&rpc=22"><P>"And I think you're saying the average guy out there who's considering
recruitment is justified in saying 'I don't want to serve'," the
interviewer continued.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyid=2006-01-03T135945Z_01_KWA315575_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-USA-MURTHA.xml&rpc=22"><P>"Exactly right," said Murtha, who drew White House ire in November
after becoming the first ranking Democrat to push for a pullout of U.S.
forces from Iraq as soon as it could be done safely.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D8A78405-EF38-46D1-9BF8-681BBB244D67/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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