{"id":1942,"date":"2008-10-30T01:31:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T01:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-10-30T01:35:08","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T01:35:08","slug":"vets_for_freedo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1942","title":{"rendered":"Vets For Freedom and John Murtha"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vets For Freedom has been running ads hammering John Murtha<\/a> for his ongoing willingness to believe – and speak – the worst of our troops.<\/p>\n

Murtha’s commentaries about Haditha alone were despicable – simply because they rushed to judgment and showed that with very little information, he accepted the worst possible narrative about the tragedy.<\/p>\n

Murtha is also a pork baron<\/a>, and a classic example of the sense of entitlement that’s destroying our Congress.<\/p>\n

That’s why I was happy to donate to his opponent, and to sign the Vets For Freedom<\/a> petition – and ask you to click over and sign as well – asking that he apologize for his flatly false claims about the solders who – like him – stood in harm’s way, and then – unlike him – came home to find themselves unjustly charged as criminals. They need to get their reputations back, and Murtha’s colleagues needs to learn that there are limits to what outrages they can commit on-mike.<\/p>\n

When VFF contacted me, I realized that I needed to go over and donate to Bill Russell – Murtha’s opponent – and did. You should too<\/a> – because integrity matters more than party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Go sign the Vets For Freedom petition asking Jim Murtha to apologize…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}