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June 19, 2006

Murtha: Losing It?

Michelle Malkin has extensive evisceration of John Murtha's "Okinawa Plan".

This, from "Meet The Press":

REP MURTHA:...We can go to Okinawa. We, we don’t have—we can redeploy there almost instantly. So that’s not—that’s, that’s a fallacy. That, that’s just a statement to rial up people to support a failed policy wrapped in illusion.

MR. RUSSERT: But it’d be tough to have a timely response from Okinawa.

REP. MURTHA: Well, it—you know, they—when I say Okinawa, I, I’m saying troops in Okinawa. When I say a timely response, you know, our fighters can fly from Okinawa very quickly. And—and—when they don’t know we’re coming. There’s no question about it. And, and where those airplanes won’t—came from I can’t tell you, but, but I’ll tell you one thing, it doesn’t take very long for them to get in with cruise missiles or with, with fighter aircraft or, or attack aircraft, it doesn’t take any time at all. So we, we have done—this one particular operation, to say that that couldn’t have done, done—it was done from the outside, for heaven’s sakes.

Froggy at Blackfive notes, in the context of hypothetically mounting an attack on Zarquawi from Okinawa...:
The straight yellow line extending across the middle of China and Iran is the distance from Okinawa to Baghdad as the crow flies which is approximately 4200 nautical miles. Obviously, the Chinese and the Iranians wouldn't be cool with that, but let's just roll with it. The max combat range for the F-16 with external fuel tanks and 2000 lbs of ordnance is 740 nautical miles so that's like a minimum of SIX midair refuelings in EACH direction.

This little display is hardly worth putting together, but I did it to demostrate that this man is dangerously deluded and not at all serious about an issue of critical national security significance. He is out there in the MSM just winging it and not being called to account whatsoever for statements that are so outlandish and absurd that they defy all attempts at comprehension.

I'd add "doltish".

It'll be interesting to see how the Dems react to Murtha. After six months of exalting his absolute moral authority on the issue, how will they react to the fact that he's become a complete embarassment to anyone who can hold a rational thought on the issue?

Posted by Mitch at June 19, 2006 07:00 AM | TrackBack
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Why did he pick Okinawa, not Diego Garcia, which is thousands of miles closer? Just because the 3rd Marines are already there? Idiot.

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Posted by: nathan bissonette at June 25, 2006 08:15 PM
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