The California Conservative does a more than adequate fisking of Murtha's "Meet the Press" criticisms regarding a "stay the course" policy:
• As of June 12, 2006, all services exceeded their recruiting goals. Navy: 100%; MarineGreat observations by a great blog!
Corps: 105%; Air Force: 100%; Army: 108%
• Staying the course is a plan, and here it is (President’s plan for Iraq)It isn’t 130 degrees year round inIraq
• US Soldiers can handle 70 lbs.
• Everyone fights in the war on terror, if not as a soldier, by whom they support. Ask a soldier whose been to Afghanistan or Iraq if saying “We cannot win in Iraq” is fighting on the enemy’s
side. Read the rest