Sunday - December 04, 2005
 A Man Will See What He Wants to See
And will disregard the rest.
Congressman John Murtha has been in
the news a lot recently, mostly bad mouthing the military and saying how
hopeless it is for us.I have no idea
where he got that idea from. When he came to visit our battalion in Haditha
Dam, Al Anbar Province, Iraq, we told him an entirely different
story.  This is a picture of him with some
army guy I don't know, our battalion commander and the battalion sergeant
major.
There's no telling what our CO told Rep. Murtha.
But I am pretty sure he didn't tell him that we need to cut and run. We had a
dog and pony show with samples of how much our equipment had improved in the
short time we had been there, especially regarding armored vehicles. I'm sure
he bragged at our recent permanent presence in the city of Hit.
And I'm pretty sure no one told him
that we needed to be pulled back home before finishing the job we were
doing.But a man will hear what he
wants to hear. See what he wants to see. And make any kind of crazy claim to
support his political agenda.His aides
walked about handing out little keychain fobs with his name on them. I didn't
keep it, wish I had now, so that I could mail it back to him with appropriate
comments of disapproval. He and the
other congressman, who's name I don't remember because I didn't get a key chain
fob with a name on it, had some really hot-looking aides with them. It caused a
small stir when they came to the top of the
dam.Here LCpl Fencil, our
photographer, seems to be chatting with him, but I suspect he was really
checking out his aides. I was too discreet to take pictures of
them. Rep. Murtha retired as a Marine
officer. It's a pity he didn't seem to learn much about warfare from that
experience. But a man's agenda will influence what he sees and hears first
hand. Or at least what he'll say he sees and hears.
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