Okay, I shot from the hip on that one.
I should have known not to go by an MSNBC story.
Murtha's entire speech here. Including the parts MSNBC thought weren't important.
This guy carries a lot of weight. It's entirely possible the monsters have won this one. The U.S. will bail on Iraq again, and it will be eaten alive. Of course, we won't hear about it. The media will turn its back on the carnage the same way it did on South Vietnam.
It will be small comfort for Iraq that the Democrats won't win another election for twenty years.