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General Wagner Delivers A Message
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Rob - 04:01pm on 01/07/2006
During this townhall session with Rep. Jim Moran and Rep. John Murtha I posted about earlier a soldier, Vietnam veteran General Louis C. Wagner, got up and delivered a message.

Here's an excerpt (directed at Murtha):

"...If we lose our will at home, it makes the task for our soldiers all the more difficult. I believe your comments were irresponsible and are contributing to the loss of national will. If they were made to obtain political advantages I would find that abhorrent and unworthy of a former Marine."

Sir, I'm mad. Because that is happening every day when I read the newspapers. I visit Walter Reed, and talk to the young soldiers with their legs blown off. I know you do too.

I can't find one in a dozen that don't believe that they are fighting for a noble cause and are fighting to go back. And I think it's a disgrace when members of our congress, just as they did in 1975 when they sold out the South Vietnamese, are selling out our soldiers today in Iraq.


I was standing in my living room and applauding when he finished up.

Video of the exchange is available here, a transcript of his statement is here.

louis wagner, john murtha, jim moran, iraq, war on terror
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