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Jack Murtha: U.S. Deliberately Killed Innocent Civilians in WWII
Congressman Jack Murtha, D-Penn., said Wednesday night that the U.S. military was deliberately and indiscriminately killing innocent civilians in Iraq - much the same way, he added, that American pilots did during World War II. Asked about his crusade to expose the alleged massacre of an Iraqi family in Haditha last November, Murtha told Fox News Radio's Alan Colmes: "When this comes out, it's going to be much worse than" the initial reports. Could the Haditha episode be characterized as "the indiscriminate, deliberate killing of civilians?" Colmes asked. "From everything I've seen," said Murtha, "that's exactly what it was. ... That's exactly what happened in this particular case."
Story Continues Below "That's the thing that has to be brought out," the Pennsylvania Democrat said. "And I won't let them cover up this whole thing," he vowed. Asked how the U.S. military could possibly be engaged in "purposely, indiscriminately killing innocent civilians," Murtha invoked U.S. air raids on Hitler's Germany and Tojo's Japan. "In World War II we dropped bombs on all these different countries," he told Colmes. "We killed civilians. In wartime – this is wartime. You're not sitting in an office back here. This is wartime." Separately, Murtha said that some of his fellow Democrats were wrong to press for President Bush's impeachment. "I don't think what he did was impeachable," he told Colmes. "I think what he did was a misjudgment, a mischaracterization, a misrepresentation" of intelligence leading up to the Iraq war, the Pennsylvania Democrat explained. But certainly, at this stage, I couldn't say that it's impeachable." "A lot of places I've gone people have signs: 'Impeach the President,'" Murtha said. "I went through one impeachment with President Nixon when I first came here. It's a very serious thing. And you have to do a lot of research. Committees have to have hearings and so forth." "So unless the [Iraq war] intelligence was distorted, I certainly would not support it." Richard Nixon resigned in 1973 before any articles of impeachment could be voted against him for participating in the Watergate cover-up. Rep. Murtha did not mention President Clinton, who is the only elected president in U.S. history to have actually been impeached.
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