By Michael J. Smith on Saturday November 19, 2005 12:45 PM
Wang got it very right about John Murtha, the Pennsylvania Democrat who has earned himself an honorable
niche in history by being the first member of either house of Congress to call for immediate
withdrawal from Iraq. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, and amid a flock of squalid
poltroons like the US Congress, Murtha's willingness to stand up all by his lonesome and say what a lot of Americans have been saying for a long time makes him an honest-to-God hero.
What is most delightful is that this unlikely paladin has outflanked all the Great White Hopes in the "progressive" camp of the Democratic Party: the Barak Obamas, the Russel Feingolds.
Murtha's courage and common sense are still in short supply among his colleagues: only two other Democrats joined him, and his resolution was defeated 403-3.
