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Democratic Rep. John Murtha Dies
Democratic Congressman John Murtha, an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq, died Monday.
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Rep. John Murtha (file photo)
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WASHINGTON (February 8, 2010)—Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., the retired Marine Corps officer who became an outspoken critic of the Iraq war, has died at 77, a spokesman said Monday.
Murtha had been suffering complications from gallbladder surgery.
In 1974, Murtha became the first combat veteran of the Vietnam War elected to Congress where he wielded considerable clout for two decades as a leader of the House subcommittee that oversees Pentagon spending.
But frustration over the Iraq war led him to call for an immediate pullout of U.S. troops in 2005.
Murtha's congressional career was clouded by questions about his ethics, from the Abscam corruption probe in 1980 to more recent investigations into the special interest spending known as earmarks and the raising of cash for election campaigns.
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