Petition Opposing Award To Rep. Murtha

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When I read the following email, I clicked posthaste on the link to sign the petition. (I don’t think I’ve ever been number 4 on a petition before, but the outrage was immediate. I think when you read it, you will want to sign too. But if by some remote chance you dither, remember this video of the man our Navy has seen fit to celebrate. But read the email first. That should suffice.)

Friends,

Congressman John Murtha was recently awarded the Department of the Navy’s highest public service award for non-employees by the Secretary of the Navy. This is an outrage. As you probably know, John Murtha has been the worst of a bad lot in Congress who exploited those serving in combat for political purposes.

He was the most outspoken member of Congress in aggressively attacking Marines as “cold blooded killers” who “murdered women and children” after the Haditha incident in November, 2005, BEFORE AN INVESTIGATION WAS EVEN CONDUCTED. In fact, he slandered the Marines to such an extent, and with such disregard for the truth, that one of them sued him for libel (rumor says there’s another libel suit to come soon).

It is inconceivable that the Secretary of the Navy would give such an award to such a man, yet it happened not two weeks ago with muted response.

I have created an online petition to express our outrage and disgust and I’m asking you to join me in signing it.

Please use the link below to visit the petition and sign it; it will take less than two minutes.

Additionally, please send it on to everyone you know who cares about the reputation of our active duty military and combat veterans, we can’t allow this to pass by unnoticed. Once we receive enough signatures, it will be noticed. It is essential that you forward on the link to others, it’s the only way this will generate momentum.

Please take a few minutes to make sure that this petition doesn’t stop with you.

Fight Back

Semper Fi

The link to the petition is here
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Folks, I signed the petition last night. It's an easy process.

While you must give an email address for verification, you can request it remain private.

When I signed there were already more than 6,000 electronic signatures.

I've posted often on Murtha- not only on his outrageous slanders of our Marines, but also his swimming for decades in the political scoundrel's sleaze pool

I'll post on Murtha and the petition drive again tomorrow.

A big thank you to the Anon commenter who was the first to alert me to the petition; to Instapundit for linking to Simon; and to Simon for his post.