rssLongtime Rep. John Murtha Dies at 77
Monday, February 08, 2010 at 2:54 pm
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Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), the longtime top Democrat on the Defense Appropriations subcommittee, has died at 77 years of age. Murtha, the subject of ethics queries for much of his career, was the first Vietnam veteran elected to Congress. A national security hawk, he lit a fire under many of his Democratic colleagues when he came out forcefully for withdrawing from Iraq in 2005.
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I heard he choked on a piece of fried chicken manufactured in china…
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I heard he choked on a piece of fried chicken manufactured in china…
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