John Murtha Is Against The War . . . Unless It Helps His District

John Murtha once said that bringing federal money to his district "is
the whole goddamn reason I went to Washington." And he sure doesn’t
let that conflict with his anti-war principles . . . when the two meet, the
greenbacks win every time.

He is chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, and as
such he has steered quite a volume of military spending toward his western Pennsylvania
district, including $293
million in spending on CROWs, the Common
Remotely Operated Weapon Station which is specifically designed for use
in places like Iraq.

So our troops can murder more "
innocent civilians in cold blood," I suppose.

Crossposted from Ken McCracken