I think it’s a big mistake, one that can affect the credibility
of his critics at NRO and the White House, to paint John Murtha
with too wide an anti-war brush. He is one of the very few Dems who
thinks carefully and cares deeply about the defense of our nation
as his book,
From Vietnam to 9/11, shows. We would do better to answer him
and win him over than to try to push him into the left corner. The
fact that he has criticized the war — even that he voted for
Howlin’ Howie — says less about him than his decades in Congress.