Swiftboating John Murtha/External Links 2005

The following are external links for November and December 2005 related to the main article Swiftboating John Murtha.

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 * External Links for January-May 2006, June 2006, July 2006, August 2006, and September-November 2006.
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By John Murtha

 * "The War in Iraq is Not Going as Advertised. Iraq Must Be Freed from the US Occupation," CounterPunch, November 17, 2005.
 * "Murtha Speech," Crooks and Liars, November 17, 2005. WMP and QT video links.
 * jesselee, "Murtha in Full," The Stakeholder, November 17, 2005. Transcript of speech.
 * "Iraq Cannot Be Won," AlterNet, November 19, 2005.

November

 * John Aravosis, "Pentagon starts trying to swift boat Cong. Murtha," AMERICAblog, November 17, 2005.
 * "GOP should have been as angry at Osama," Crooks and Liars, November 17, 2005.
 * Sher Zieve, "Rep. Murtha Calls for Abandonment and Surrender in Iraq," The Conservative Voice, November 17, 2005.
 * Bob Newman, "A Traitor's Tirade: Rep. John Murtha Soils The Corps," MensNewsDaily.com, November 17, 2005.
 * Noel Shepperd, "Media Ignore Congressman Murtha’s Long History Of Opposition to the Iraq War," NewsBusters, November 17, 2005.
 * Brent Baker, "Nets Lead With Murtha, Highlight His Ridicule of Cheney's Lack of Military Service," NewsBusters, November 17, 2005.
 * Tim Graham, "Murtha's Previous Starring News Role: Koppel Loved Him In May 2004," NewsBusters, November 17, 2005.
 * Kevin Zeese, "Rep. Murtha Calls for 'Immediate Redeployment' of U.S. Troops In Iraq," DemocracyRising.us, November 17, 2005.
 * Andrea Seabrook, "Onetime Iraq War Backer Calls for Troop Pullout," NPR's All Things Considered, November 17, 2005.
 * Robert Smith, "Murtha's Constituents Weigh In on the War," NPR's Weekend Edition, November 18, 2005: "While Murtha's comments have created political turmoil in Washington, back in his district his constituents are defending him."
 * "U.S. Rep. John Murtha's statement calling for U.S. exit from Iraq," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA), November 18, 2005.
 * Charles Babington, "Hawkish Democrat Joins Call For Pullout. GOP Assails Murtha's Demand to Leave Iraq," Washington Post, November 18, 2005.
 * "White House: Murtha's call is 'surrender'. Democratic hawk: U.S. must leave Iraq," CNN, November 18, 2005.
 * Dana Milbank, "An Unlikely Lonesome Dove," Washington Post, November 18, 2005.
 * Ken Rudin, "Long-time War Hawk, Murtha Is An Angry Dove," NPR, November 18, 2005.
 * "Iraq war debate gets bitter, personal," Seattle Times, November 18, 2005.
 * Taylor Marsh, "IRAQ: Repub Pull-out Resolution a Ruse," TaylorMarsh.com, November 18, 2005.
 * Armando, "Ugly GOP Smear Stunt Fails Its Objective," Daily Kos, November 18, 2005.
 * "Murtha Stirs Policy Debate," Fox News, November 18, 2005.
 * Larry Johnson, "Why John Murtha is Right!" TPM Cafe, November 18, 2005.
 * Andy Ostroy, "Sleazy GOP Attack Machine Kicks Into High Gear to Tear Down and Smear John Murtha," Op-Ed News, November 18, 2005.
 * "GOP Tries To Call Murtha's 'Bluff'," Hotline Blog/National Journal, November 18, 2005.
 * "Kerry Condemns 'Swift Boat' Style Attacks On Murtha," Independents for John Kerry Blog, November 18, 2005.
 * Joshua Micah Marshall, Talking Points Memo, November 18, 2005. re Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio)
 * "House GOP Seeks Quick Veto of Iraq Pullout," Associated Press (CBS News), November 18, 2005.
 * "VIDEO: Schmidt’s Shame," Think Progress, November 18, 2005.
 * "Jean Full of Schmidt," Crooks and Liars, November 18, 2005.
 * Jane Hamsher, "Jean Full of Schmidt," firedoglake, November 18, 2005.
 * jesselee, "Jean Schmidt," The Stakeholder, November 18, 2005.
 * John Rosenberg, "'The Swift-Boating Of Jack Murtha'?" Oh, That Liberal Media, November 18, 2005.
 * Brent Baker, "CBS Portrays Murtha as Victim of Unfair Attacks, Insists His 'Patriotism Questioned'" and "ABC's Bob Woodruff Corrects His False Claim that Bush Called Critics 'Unpatriotic'," NewsBusters, November 18, 2005.
 * Charles Babington, "House Rejects Iraq Pullout After GOP Forces a Vote. Democrats Enraged By Personal Attack," Washington Post, November 19, 2005.
 * Eric Schmitt, "Uproar in House as Parties Clash on Iraq Pullout," New York Times (Common Dreams); truthout, November 19, 2005.
 * Mike Hersh, "House on Fire," MikeHersh.com, November 19, 2005: "The very short version is this: Members of Congress debated Iraq policy in the Peoples' House for the first time since Bush took us into war. That doesn't begin to describe the bizarre and frenzied circumstances under which this too-short and long overdue debate unfolded." (emphasis added)
 * David Greene, "Bush, on Asia Trip, Rebuffs U.S. War Critics," NPR's All Things Considered, November 19, 2005.
 * Andrea Seabrook, "Murtha's Moment: Not Soon Forgotten," NPR, November 19, 2005.
 * Scott, "Friends, Romans, clowns," Power Line Blog, November 19, 2005.
 * Warner Todd Huston, "Chicken-hawk talk is unAmerican -- Murtha's astonishing lack of knowledge," RenewAmerica, November 19, 2005.
 * Joshua Holland, "The ethics "smear" against John Murtha," The Gadflyer, November 20, 2005.
 * Jason DeParle, "'Mean Jean' Goes to Washington, and Invites a Firestorm," New York Times, November 20, 2005.
 * Mackubin Thomas Owens, "Defeated by Defeatism. Why Jack Murtha is wrong," National Review Online, November 21, 2005.
 * "Transcript for November 20. John Murtha, Anthony Fauci, Julie Gerberding, Michael Leavitt and Michael Ryan," Meet the Press (MSNBC), November 21, 2005.
 * Daniel Schorr, "Murtha Changes Political Landscape of Iraq Debate," NPR's All Things Considered, November 21, 2005.
 * Fred Kaplan, "What Murtha Meant. We're leaving Iraq anyway. At least he's got a plan," Slate, November 21, 2005.
 * Max Blumenthal, "Who Is Mean Jean's Marine? And Why Does He Think Murtha's A Coward?" The Huffington Post, November 21, 2005.
 * John O'Neill, "Summer Soldiers," The New York Sun, November 21, 2005.
 * "Murtha's alleged 'ethics problem'," The Carpetbagger Report, November 21, 2005.
 * Dotty Lynch, "John Murtha, The Real Deal. White House Blinks As Pennsylvania Democrat Stands His Ground," CBS News, November 22, 2005.
 * Nicholas von Hoffman, "In Praise of John Murtha," The Nation, November 23, 2005.
 * SueDoe_CyAnts, "Smear Schmidt," Shadow Media Blog, November 21, 2005.
 * "Congressman John Murtha," Wings of Justice, November 24, 2005.
 * Shailagh Murray, "The About-Face of a Hawkish Democrat. Murtha, With Many Military Connections, Moves From Voting for War to Urging Troop Withdrawal," Washington Post, November 25, 2005.
 * "Iraq and the Murtha Plan: Stay or Go?" NPR's Weekend Edition, November 26, 2005.
 * Alexander Cockburn, "How the Democrats Undercut John Murtha. He Pointed the Way Out; They Chopped Off His Hand," CounterPunch, November 26/27, 2005.
 * Teresa Heinz Kerry, "Assault on Murtha should alarm us all," The Tribune-Democrat (Johnstown, PA), November 28, 2005.
 * H.D.S. Greenway, "Bush's patriotism smear," Boston Globe, November 29, 2005.

December

 * Ann Coulter, "We like you! We really, really like you!" Townhall.com, December 1, 2005.
 * "Coulter's Swift Boat-style smear of Vietnam veteran Murtha," Media Matters for America, December 1, 2005.
 * Melissa Block, "Murtha: Military Supports Call for Iraq Withdrawal," NPR's All Things Considered, December 1, 2005.
 * Rowan Scarborough, "Murtha assesses Army as 'broken'," Washington Times, December 2, 2005.
 * Gary North, "John Murtha: The Turning Point," LewRockwell.com, December 2, 2005: "When the history of the loss of the Iraq war is written by the losing side&mdash;ours&mdash;Congressman John Murtha's public opposition to the war will be highlighted as the turning point."
 * "Murtha Raises Question of Troop Sentiment on Iraq," NPR's Morning Edition, December 2, 2005.
 * Richard Wolffe and Jonathan Darman, "The Vet Strategy. The public is unhappy. The GOP is on the run. The Dems have a secret weapon: Iraq war vets, deployed on a new field of battle," Newsweek (MSNBC), December 5, 2005.
 * Katrina Vanden Heuvel, "John Murtha's Johnstown," The Nation, December 5, 2005.
 * Nico Pitney, "More McCain Attacks: Murtha 'Sentimental,' 'Never Been a Big Thinker'," Think Progress, December 6, 2005.
 * Jeff Huber, "Dog Pile on Murtha," Main and Central, December 9, 2005.
 * Ray Peck, "An unwarranted attack," The Billings Outpost, December 22, 2005.