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From WNYC in New York, this is NPR's On the Media.

I'm Brooke Ladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield.

After three years of war and mainly muted dissatisfaction, suddenly there came a tipping point.

Our military is suffering. The future of our country is at risk. We cannot continue on the

present course. John Murtha, the 17-term conservative Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania,

declared the war in Iraq militarily unwinnable. And suddenly the debate was muted no more.

Here was the reaction of Republican Congresswoman Jean Schmidt of Ohio.

A few minutes ago I received a call from Colonel Danny Bopp,

Ohio Representative from the 88th District in the House of Representatives.

He asked me to send Congress a message, stay the course.

He also asked me to send Congressman Murtha a message that cowards cut and run Marines never do.

Danny and the rest of America.

All hell broke loose on the floor of the house and in the media debate

over the war heating up in washington after calls for pullout by a former war supporter

the decorated war hero who backed the iraq invasion but now wants u.s troops out in six months

veteran who voted for the war called for troop withdrawal within six months we'll talk to the

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