Jim, I'm praying that the RNC & the NRCC make ads out of this video. Imagine the impact that that ad would have playing Murtha's online interview against the backdrop of Johnson's speech.

I've stated this often: America is upset with the Iraq War because we aren't making enough progress. That doesn't mean that they're anti-victory.

As I said here, I believe that the Dems are in the process of overplaying their hands.

Without doubt, a significant number of those voicing dissatisfaction with the Iraq War in polls are doing so because they would prefer a MORE aggressive approach, not because they favor a withdrawal without accomplishing minimal goals.

But, even if this were not true, it would not matter. In the summer of 1864 public dissatisfaction with the War had grown so universal that Lincoln's defeat by McClellan was widely expected. Had Sherman not taken Atlanta when he did, the course of our history might have changed drastically - McClellan viewed the whole thing as a "quagmire" and would have immediately sued for peace to "bring the boys home safely."

Had Tom Dewey been willing to abandon bipartisan foreign policy in 1944, he might have tapped into broad public dismay at the "quagmire" in Europe, let alone the bloody cost of incremental progress in the Pacific, and painted FDR as a dying man following a dying plan. Back then, though, they didn't disregard the "loyal" in "Loyal Opposition."

No matter how many people believe something, if it is wrong, it's wrong.

I would like to see this heroic man go toe-to-toe with Okinawa Jack Murtha on a Sunday or prime time news show. I bet Murtha would cut and run and refuse to appear.

I hope the GOP makes Johnson a spokesman and gives him more face time.

Murtha has doomed himself to the garbage heap when history is written. A once proud american is now a mass of stupidity, or suffering from mental illness. Either way his footnote in history will show him as a traitor to his country and the United States Military. I"d like to tell the SOB that to his face as I know he never see's the emails sent to his office. His cowardly wimps hide and destroy them.

For the last 5 years the "rubberstamped congress" has been in charge, and not enough body armor, Humvees and other vehicles not equipped with armor, lousey conditions for the wounded, (new scandle about that), and you call this supporting the troops?

Does make you wonder why any Republican would accuse someone else of not supporting the troops. Is it because of their own poor record of supporting the troops?

So where is the "chicken-hawk" rebuttal from the left? Opps, guess it won't work here, will it?

So when Republicans by the millions believe and state "Our troops, and their families, want, need and deserve the full support of the country, and the Congress. Moms and dads watching the news need to know that the Congress will not leave their sons and daughters in harm's way without support." - those who have not served are dismissed as war-mongering, chicken hawks.

The RNC, HAS to use this in advertisements down the road.