This goes under the heading of: ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!

John “Marines Massacre Iraq civilians in Haditha” Murtha has recieved the Navy’s highest civilian award, the Distinguished Public Service Award.

In one of his last moves before leaving office March 13, then-Navy Secretary Donald Winter quietly awarded 19-term Democratic congressman John Murtha (Pa.) with the service’s highest civilian honor.

Citing Murtha’s “courageous leadership, vision, and loyalty to the men and women of the Department of the Navy,” Winter presented the influential chairman of the House Appropriations Committee’s defense panel with the Navy’s Distinguished Public Service Award, an honor bestowed in “those extraordinary cases where individuals have demonstrated exceptionally outstanding service of substantial and long term benefit to the Navy, Marine Corps, or the Department of the Navy as a whole,” a Murtha release stated.

I am at a loss of words. This man does not deserve anything. He has accused the Marines of slaughtering innocent Iraq civilians, which of course turned out to be untrue. He has stated “the surge is not working”, and the military faced a disaster in Iraq, among other things. Statements that he has never apologized for. He also tried to block an appropriations bill just last year for funding our troops on the ground. And now the Navy gives him an award? Unbelievable!