19 March 2009

Gabriel Ledeen spent two tours as a Marine lieutenant in Iraq.  And so when an email comes in from Gabe, it grabs my attention.

Gabe sent this today:

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

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