The Bad Ship Jack Murtha

Obama's latest insult to servicemen and women.

Naming a U.S. Navy ship after a departed congressman is a slap in the face of all veterans. This God-awful decision should not be allowed to stand.

It is a sacrilege, a savage low blow to the United States military, that the late congressman John (Jack) H. Murtha (D-PA) is being honored now by having a U.S. Navy ship named after him. It is a sacrilege of a high order, in the sense of the term's Latin roots meaning "stealing from holy places."

In a world of political outrages, of insensibility to truth and denial of objective realities, this single act brings everlasting discredit to the U.S. Navy. It is really an unforgivable outrage, an affront to all honorably serving veterans and those to serve our nation in the future.

Before he died in February at age 77, Representative Murtha served eighteen terms in the House. During that time, he dished up hundreds millions of dollars for pork projects for his poor district. He urged our nation's surrender and ultimate defeat of a freshly-minted democracy in Iraq. He was embroiled in swept-under-the rug House ethics violations and initially, in Abscam, of being willingly pitched by the FBI agents posing as Saudi "investors."

And of course, there's Jack Murtha's slander of US Marines.