I saw Murtha make the comments you quoted, G-Man.

(Regarding Rove's girth rather than the merits of the issue discussed by Rove.)

It was during this past Sunday's MEET THE PRESS, where Murtha was interviewed. (This link is to the complete video of the program online.)

Murtha pisses me off. I've seen him interviewed several times, his mind is clearly made up, and he irritably shouts down anyone who challenges his opinion, not even allowing the counter-argument to his views to be voiced.

Murtha is one of a growing crop of Democrats voicing bitterly divisive rhetoric, where because of their military record or alleged suffering, Democrats consider it evil to so much as give a counter-argument to what these liberals argue. And equally evil to (gasp, choke !) question their record or credibility.
John Kerry, Cindy Sheehan, several 9-11 widows critical of Bush, now John Murtha... and the list just builds.

I frankly think Murtha is a blowhard, who exploits the emotion of the issue. And has largely argued with emotion over substance to assert his views.
So don't nominate this guy for sainthood just yet. He's playing partisan politics.

And I'd add Murtha to my list of Democrats who truly understand what's at stake, but emotionally posture to score points with their liberal voter-base, against what they know to be the nation's best interest for victory in Iraq.
Because they know they can posture and score points with liberal voters, while Bush will continue do the right thing in Iraq regardless.

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    Liberals who bemoan discrimination, intolerance, restraint of Constitutional freedoms, and promotion of hatred toward various abberant minorities, have absolutely no problem with discriminating against, being intolerant of, restricting Constitutional freedoms of, and directing hate-filled scapegoat rhetoric against conservatives.

    EXACTLY what they accuse Republicans/conservatives of doing, is EXACTLY what liberals/Democrats do themselves, to those who oppose their beliefs.