John Murtha, a Congressman from Pennsylvania’s 12th District, has introduced a resolution to the United States House of Representatives that demands the termination of the American military deployment in Iraq “at the earliest practicable date”.
Murtha, the most senior ranking Democrat on the House Defence Appropriations Subcommittee, is a decorated Vietnam veteran who voted in support of the Iraq invasion in 2003.
Murtha told the House: “Our military has done everything that has been asked of them, the U.S. can not accomplish anything further in Iraq militarily. It is time to bring them home.”