It's (Past) Time for Murtha to Resign By FrontPage Magazine

With one comment late last week, John Murtha argued eloquently for his own resignation.

In a video teleconference last Thursday, Murtha told his constituents, “I think the ‘surge’ is working.”

Jack Murtha is remembered as the main opponent of American involvement in Iraq, who argued not merely against the surge but for an immediate withdrawal while al-Zarqawi still treated Anbar province as the beachhead of a new, pan-Islamic Caliphate. The Abscam unindicted co-conspirator has demoralized the troops for years by claiming the war is “lost” and can never be “won militarily”; he has now vindicated the president and invalidated his unchanging, interminable counsel of withdrawal.

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