Murtha Elaborates on His Iraq War Position

Transcript for November 20, Meet the Press: John Murtha, Anthony Fauci, Julie Gerberding, Michael Leavitt and Michael Ryan.

  • Rep. John Murtha: “Well, I tell you, Cheney’s a friend of mine. We work very closely together. He was a good secretary of Defense, but he’s wrong. They should have fired people. The president should be furious with this–the people that work for him giving him bad intelligence. We spend more on intelligence than any country in the world. We spend more on intelligence than the whole world spends together and our intelligence was wrong. There’s no question we’re going in the wrong direction and we’re not winning. The incidents have increased and the economic indicators–oil, which was supposed to pay for all of this, is below prewar levels. There’s nothing that’s happening that shows any sign of success…
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