http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=9779550

Quote:U.S. Rep. John Murtha, an influential critic of the Iraq War whose congressional career was shadowed by questions about his ethics, died Monday. He was 77.

The Pennsylvania Democrat had been suffering complications from gallbladder surgery. He died at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., spokesman Matthew Mazonkey said.

He wasn't going to get re-elected anyway.

(02-08-2010 04:04 PM)WMD Owl Wrote:  He wasn't going to get re-elected anyway.

So you're saying this was just political maneuvering by the DNC?

After trashing the Marines and essentially calling them cold-blooded murderers...and not apologizing after they were exonerated, f'em. Sorry, when Dems like Blanche Lincoln, Evan Bayh, Kucinich, etc., die, I won't celebrate. People like Murtha, however, good f'n riddance. It's not about politics. He was a POS in the highest order.

I hate to speak evil of the departed, so I'll say nothing.

He had misplaced loyalties. He will ever be associated with "Abscam", Corruption, and earmarks for Pa. Along with his views on the Iraq war.... RIP

You'll forgive me if I don't shed a tear.

Good riddance. Like his geezer cohort in WVA...another scumbag who has funneled billions of pork to his state. f him...GD thief.

He's meeting with his maker for judgement day ............




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I hear that he got blood poisoning from a slip of the surgeon's knife, cutting into his intestines accidentally during the operation.