Outrage!… Navy Names Ship After "Cold-Blooded" Cut-n-Runner John Murtha
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 6:56 AM
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus will name an amphibious warship after famed cut-and-runner and slanderer John Murtha who passed away in February.
Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) smeared innocent US Marines serving in Iraq.
Murtha gave several interviews after an antiwar story broke in TIME Magazine saying that the US marines killed innocent civilians “in cold blood.”
The story was later linked back to Al-Qaeda operatives.
Murtha was a willing dupe and never apologized to the innocent Marines.
Exonerated Haditha Marine Lance Cpl. Justin Sharratt filed charges against Rep. John Murtha in September 2008 in Pennsylvania.
7 of 8 marines had their charges dismissed after being slandered by John Murtha.
One marine awaits justice.
Photos via Defend Our Marines
John Murtha slandered these innocent Haditha Marines. Their lives will never be the same thanks to John Murtha and John Murtha refused to apologize to these marines after they were exonerated.
Murtha was a disgrace to the military.
SSgt Frank Wuterich, the remaining defendant in the Haditha case, will go on trial on September 13, 2010.
Now he will have a ship named after him.
The Navy Times reported:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi praised the Navy’s decision to name an amphibious warship after Rep. John Murtha, but the formal announcement Friday added fuel to an already smoldering backlash online.
Murtha — “our dear Jack,” as Pelosi referred to him — deserved the honor as a tireless advocate for troops generally and Marines in particular, she said, and she recalled admiring his rapport with them.
“Whether on the battlefield, or on the bedside, he thanked them for their courage, listened to their concerns, and asked them for comment — and he answered their needs, and responded to their calls, whether it was for body armor, up-armored vehicles… radios, you name it,” Pelosi said. “In those minutes [together], he bonded with them especially because he would share his own personal military service with them, and cared for them as a father. They knew it, and they returned his respect.”
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, who technically is the only person in the government with the power to name U.S. warships, also praised Murtha’s history of service. He unveiled an official illustration showing an amphibious transport dock marked with the hull number “26” named John P. Murtha. It will be the first in the San Antonio class not named for an American city.
Despite the encomia from Pelosi and Mabus, thousands of Web users remembered a different Murtha — the one who opposed the Iraq war and accused Marines in 2005 of killing Iraqis “in cold blood” — when reacting to the announcement about the ship named in his honor. A Facebook group called People Against Naming A Navy Ship USS Murtha had 1,336 members as of Monday morning, and it was becoming a clearinghouse for angry comments and homemade cartoons criticizing Murtha.
Posters on the Facebook page said Murtha, who served in the Marine Corps during the Korean and Vietnam eras, “betrayed the brotherhood,” that naming a ship for him was a “slap in the face” and that if the Navy wanted to name a ship for him, it should have chosen “a nice, stinky garbage scow.”
Let’s hope the ship has good speed to cut-and-run in the face of danger.
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Just_Saying commented:
Seems like half the citizenry of the US is “a willing dupe” to this type of charade…
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GrayRider commented:
Further proof that the military leadership has been infused with sniveling, PC, liberal weasels.
Tom63010 commented:
This only go to prove their is American reality and Washington DC reality.
SeniorD commented:
Were this ‘Beached Chief’ still serving, I would request an immediate transfer OFF that crew. I do believe we are looking at a new ‘Can Opener’ or an ‘Unlucky’ ship.
Male Silverback commented:
There are many true heros the Navy could have chosen from. For them to settle on a low life politician speaks to the ass kissing atmosphere in todays military.
JimMD commented:
Like anything Congress and the Military is involved with these days, let’s hope its rife with cost overruns, glitches, setbacks and delays…how ironic would that be!
Personally, I’d like to see it run aground in some training “accident”… oops! Our bad!
Valerie commented:
When this hit the milblogs, I though surely it would be fixed immediately. The longevity of this story in the face of the immediate commentary takes it from tin-ear bureaucracy to deliberate insult.
There are names of living people associated with this mess. The names should be published, so we can ask them what the hell they were thinking.
Auntie Em commented:
What an absolute travesty!!!
Ray Mabus is a tool and a crook. We Mississippi Patriots weren’t at all surprised that he was appointed by Obama. Birds of a feather, you know. I’m just glad he’s out of our state and not breathing our air.
Gary Gross commented:
I wrote extensively about Rep. Murtha. The post I’m most proud of is this timeline, which perfectly illustrates how much tapdancing Murtha did in explaining how he accused these 8 American heroes of cold-blooded murder.
Andreas K. commented:
I guess naming a German ship after Dönitz is perfectly alright after all. Or after Speer. Or maybe even after Eichmann.
Outrageous. That ship should be named after a true hero, one who followed the tradition of the USMC until his death. Something that Murtha has never been. Murtha is the only “ex-Marine” I’ve ever heard of.
kingsjester commented:
No way should this be allowed to happen. Murtha was a politician who betrayed the very military he served in. He should not be honored in this way. This is slap in the face to our brave men and women by a bunch of Liberal pinheads.
patman commented:
Will the naming of this ship help draw travelers to his earmark, i mean airport (which services about 10 passengers a day)?
I’d like to see the per passenger cost go from $200,000 per passenger go down to at least $190,000.
But then, they’re all racists like the people in Macon.
GerryD commented:
U.S.S. douchebag.
What serviceman would not request a transfer off this joke???
Nate255 commented:
If they name it after Murtha, the Marine Corps Commandant should make this boat off-limits and never allow any Marines to board. You can’t serve on a boat named after a traitor.
ProLifer commented:
Perhaps a diversion from this:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/23/murtha.airport/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
Adirondack Patriot commented:
Right now, the leftists in the Obama Administration who despise the military are laughing their asses off.
Saint commented:
Either its the fastest ship in the fleet, or cursed as hell to be on. I wouldn’t want to serve on it.
Finncrisp commented:
The only ship worthy to be named after this corrupt politician is one that is slated for decommissioning and preferrably to be sunk to protect coasts from breakwater.
Murtha may not have been a disgrace to the uniform, but as a congressman, he was only a whining, self serving politician.
cvbxcvxcv commented:
They should change the name of the ship
ar05075 commented:
Was it a garbage scow????
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