In this snippet, cocky Rep. Jack Murtha (D-PA) boasts, "you know I'm gonna be there 20 years in that God-damned Congress.... and what I can't do," and reassures his emissaries from the Middle East, "I can tell you exactly whether this can be done and how long it would take..." Before he laid the groundwork for a "slow bleed" of U.S. troops in Iraq, Murtha agreed to do business with a fictitious Arab sheik whom Murtha thought was trying to bribe him. Murtha avoided prosecution for his role in the ABSCAM scandal by testifying against other Democrat Congressmen who'd taken the bribes. See more Murtha at http://jackmurtha.blogspot.com .
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