John Murtha writes in the USA Today

Pennsylvania Rep. and top Democrat on the House Defense Appropriations subcommittee John Murtha wants to cut and run. You know, the decorated war veteran who is calling for immediate withdrawal from Iraq.

Underlying his piece seems to be a crazy assumption -- that, somehow, the Iraqi people are dragging their feet in learning how to defend their own country, and that withdrawing troops will somehow "motivate" them to get out front. What stupidity, I mean that is tragic. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that if Americans withdraw, the populace will have to arm itself, and there will be the civil war that Al Zarqawi has been trying to precipitate all along. In the midst of the chaos, Iraq will become a terrorist haven.Does Murtha not understand this -- or does he simply not care?