In this context, said JackMurtha, a conservative Democrat who served as a marine for 37 years, American troops are now an impediment to progress in Iraq.
Defense Appropriations chairman JackMurtha said today he is combing every line of President Bush's war budget request for ways to force the president to change his policy.
And incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is showing her true colors - and her disdain for the moderate and conservative Democrats whose victory gave her the chamber's gavel - by favoring the darling of the anti-war left, JackMurtha, over Stenny Hoyer for Majority Leader, and the radical, anti-military and once-impeached judge Alcee Hastings over Jane Harman for chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.