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There was a great interview with Democratic Representative Murtha on NPR today done by Melissa Block. You can hear it on the NPR site and it’s fairly short: Murtha: Military Supports Call for Iraq Withdrawal. It is a good contrast to the opinion piece by Senator Lieberman that I discussed in my last post.
While Representative Murtha makes his point, he seems to duck every question from Melissa Block. It’s really frustrating. I also note he makes a show of not answering certain questions to protect the jobs of generals in Iraq. This seems completely bogus… he is protecting a couple generals’ jobs while troops are dieing?!
Ok, so radio is a certain type of media and Murtha was trying to make his point. So he ducked some questions and stuck to his message. And I do think he has some solid and important points! But the contrast with Lieberman’s well written WSJ opinion piece was like black and white. Maybe Murtha has written a better argument elsewhere, I’ll have to look.
Regardless, Representative’s Murtha’s question ducking was embarrassing. We need to expect better from our politicians.

Carl