Truthdig - Reports - Robert Scheer: Murtha’s No Lefty, But He’s Right

Truthdig - Reports - Robert Scheer: Murtha’s No Lefty, But He’s Right:

"What an insult it would be to voters to place a continued cheerleader (Hoyer)for the war in the No. 2 spot in the House. To reject the basically conservative Murtha also would be to reject the votes of independents and Republicans who broke with Bush on the war.

“Your courageous leadership ... changed the national debate and helped make Iraq the central issue of this historic election,” Pelosi told Murtha in offering her endorsement. “It was surely a dark day for the Bush administration when you spoke truth to power.”

Yes, and he did so at a time when Hoyer, and all too many Democrats in Congress, still supinely were accepting or supporting the administration’s obsessive insistence that occupying Iraq is the best way to prevent terror attacks."

Let us hope that Murtha gets the job. The right-wing baloney on a sting operation that occurred over 20 years ago, and proved nothing, is despicable.