"The press is pretending to be surprised by Murtha's 
    views ('An Unlikely Lonesome Dove' ... 'a fierce hawk') 
    even though he's been a known, public Iraq War skeptic 
    since at least a year and a half ago. . . . I'm ready to 
    be convinced that U.S. troops are doing more harm than 
    good in Iraq, but Murtha's speech is not convincing. He 
    doesn't even try very hard." He doesn't have to, with all 
    the help from the press.