NSA "scandal"/John the good and honorable

NSA “spy scandal”
The only scandal in this scandal is that someone within our own government would engage in the treason necessary to expose a secret program. Whoever that someone is, they should be prosecuted. As for the punishment of the treasonous bastard, if guilty, consider that on July 12, 1798 President John Adams appointed William Ward Burrows as the second Major Commandant of the Marine Corps. In a missive to Washington Commandant Burrows is purported to have written, “We have just caught a deserter and after shaving his head, have had 200 lashes well laid on, but until we can shoot one or two we will continue to be plagued by this behaviour.” I’d settle for a head shaving and 200 lashes “well laid on”. But I think the bastard should be hung a day or so after the humiliation and pain have sunk in.

The brain-dead media continue to refer to the “scandal” as “domestic spying”. It isn’t. The NSA has a list of telephone numbers of suspected terrorists located outside of the US. The conversations conducted on those lines are being monitored. The fact that those lines are used to conduct business with the fifth column located within the US is a happenstance of good fortune not a crime. The only way this pathetic story gets any traction what-so-ever is by calling it “domestic spying” which it isn’t.

John Murtha
He said in a Nightline interview he wouldn’t join the military today. Of course that makes him a great patriot, right? Or would a true patriot have said something along the line of, service to one's country is always a noble thing. The follow up should have been, "John whatever you once were, you talk like a coward now. You're 50 pounds overweight. Who the hell would want you?" Besides it seems he’s already got gig shilling for the terrorists.

When the dopey interviewer asked him if Bush’s decision to go to war in Iraq might have been different had Bush seen combat, instead of taking the high road by rejecting the premise of the question, Murtha the good, in his self-serving fashion of late, lapped it up. “It (combat) sears your soul” Murtha wept. Well, Mr. Murtha your soul had been “seared”, but when it came time for the congress to decide on the Iraq war, YOU supported it!

Were he not such a self-serving cretin, he might have noted to the “reporter” that Article II of our Constitution has no requirement whatever for military service let alone combat service for the Commander in Chief. He might have reminded the reporter that Americans, by a 4 million vote margin, preferred George Bush’s modest military record over John Kerry’s manufactured one. He might have said non-combat vet Bill Clinton went about bombing innocents whenever his political situation required. Non-combat vet FDR was the NY blueblood who ran WWII from a wheelchair. Non-combat vet Woodrow Wilson was the high-browed intellectual afflicted with a stroke who led the US through WWI. He might have asked the clueless reporter if he was advocating a military dictatorship.

Like Benedict Arnold, Murtha once served this nation with honor. Like Benedict Arnold, Murtha got his feelings hurt because he didn’t get enough attention from the government he purportedly served. Like Benedict Arnold Murtha turned on that government. I ask Murtha the same question that I ask my friends who tell me calling him a treasonous coward is too harsh, “Well, what would he be doing differently to undermine America’s war effort if he were?”