Judge Not

ILARIO PANTANO (Marine enlisted man who served in the Persian Gulf War and most recently as a platoon commander in Iraq) from Jacksonville, N.C. wrote the following letter to the editor of the Washington Post:

Mr. Murtha's Rush to Judgment Sunday, May 28, 2006; Page B06.

It makes clear what so many fear about so many Democrats: they are perfectly willing to undermine the men and women who fight and die for all of us if it advances their political agenda.

It's salt in the wound that Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) is a former career marine.

Not on this Memorial Day--or any other--should there have ever been such a stain of betrayal on the bodies of our soldiers.