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Actually, what they did was put forward a bastardized version of Murtha's plan that basically advocated cutting and running immediately. They did this to force the Democrats to vote against it and therefore paint Murtha as a lone nut.
To make matters worse, they took to the floor to bash Murtha with Congresswomen Schmidt calling Murtha "a coward" for wanting to "cut and run". Needless to say, this didn't go over well with the Democrats and Schmidt was forced to withdraw her comments. But the damage was done.
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