Loebsack In Bed With Crooked Abscam Murtha

From the Des Moines Register:

Fresh back from his first trip to Iraq, Democratic Rep. Dave Loebsack of Iowa said Thursday night that he is more convinced than ever that the United States needs to end its involvement in the war.

But he also said he was "amazed" by the spirit and dedication of U.S. troops deployed there.

"The troops are doing a heck of a job," said Loebsack, of Mount Vernon, in a brief interview from the airport here as he boarded a plane to Iowa.

Wow, no specifics as to why Loebsack thinks the war should end. But he sure does want the media to know that he supports the troops.

Actually, Dave Loebsack wants to shit all over our troops:

As a next step, he said he is looking toward helping support legislation by Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., that will put conditions on money for the war and "we can begin to be serious about disengagement and send a very serious message to George Bush, not just a nonbinding resolution."

Murtha, the chairman of a defense appropriations subcommittee, wants to effectively stop the increase by blocking extensions of deployments and other means.

Actually, Jane Norman at the Des Moines Register is lying to you. John Murtha wants to cut off all funding for the troops:

Murtha has said that he and the House Democrat majority will now work to pull all the financial plugs from the military and place our troops in Iraq in extreme harm's way. While advising that the Democrats will vote to defund our troops, Murtha said jubilantly: "They [our troops] won't be able to continue. They won't be able to do the deployment. They won't have the equipment, they don't have the training and they won't be able to do the work!"

Why, it wasn't that long ago when Democrats were bitching about body armor. Now they're willing to take away funding for troops who are already there.

Of course, Murtha is dirty and has been in bed with Arabs before. He was back in 1980 with the ABSCAM investigation. Murtha was indicted but not prosecuted. The House Ethics Committee declined to file charges against Murtha in a vote that fell on party lines.