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Home Front: Politix
Murtha questions Bush's war honesty
2005-12-24
U.S. Rep. John Murtha accused President Bush on Wednesday of being dishonest with the American people by equating the war in Iraq with the nation's response to 9/11 as part of the war on terror. Murtha was careful not to directly accuse Bush of lying about the war, but criticized the "dishonesty of the administration" for lumping together the two events. "They're mischaracterizing the facts," the Johnstown Democrat said at a news conference in Johnstown. "They do it very shrewdly. They say 9/11. Then they say Iraq. They're giving people the impression, in Iraq we're fighting terrorism."

He said sending troops to Afghanistan was a direct result of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The war in Iraq was based on faulty intelligence and U.S. troops are battling an insurgency, not terrorism, he said. Murtha is pushing his demand for a redeployment of American troops in Iraq and a timetable for bringing soldiers home. He said military commanders on the ground in Iraq -- and in the United States -- have confided in him that U.S. forces could remain in Iraq for another 10 to 15 years. Murtha, who voted to go to war, broke with the president Nov. 17 by coming out against the fighting and calling for an immediate withdrawal of American forces.
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