Two years ago dirty fucking hippie John Murtha began the process of making it acceptable within our mainstream discourse to suggest that getting out of Iraq might be a good idea.
Since that long-haired dope-smoking patchouli-scented freak made his statement, approx. 1786 US troops have died because a bunch of vain old men in Washington confuse courage with cowardice and think their personal reputations are more important than those they send off to die for them.
