Bad Bussines Decision

The article that I chose was an article from USA Today newspaper. The article is titled "Murtha: Troops' pain, not politics, behind stance". This article is an article about John Murtha, a democratic congressman from Pennsylvania and his interest in pulling out the soldiers in Iraq. John Murtha has 37 years of military service. He has won two Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star with a Combat "V", and a Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. As a Democratic congressman for the past 31 years he has been a fierce hawk, championing conflicts in Central American and the Persian Gulf.

This article discusses Murtha's decision for immediate withdrawal of the United States troops from Iraq. I think that according to Bazerman, Murtha call for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops in Iraq fits the hindsight bias. According to Bazerman the hindsight bias occurs when people look back on their own judgments, as well as those of others.

At some point of time Murtha was a one of those members who supported going to war and sending US troops where ever they were needed. Murtha voted to authorize the 1991 Persian Gulf War. He voted with 80 other House Democrats to give President Bush the authority to use military force against Suddam Hussien in 2002. In 2003-he criticized

the Pentagon as stinting on equipment and body armor for the troops. However in 2004, he warned his party that the war was unwinnable unless more U.S. and coalition forces were sent to Iraq. Now all of a sudden Mr. Murtha has been over come with a change of heart. He has called for the withdrawal of the U.S. troops from Iraq ( Stone, 2005).

When taking the hindsight bias into consideration when looking at Murtha's decision he has now become to the terms that this war is not winnable and that maybe he should not have been a support of sending more troops over to Iraq. It's only after the fact that he has this newfound support to bring home the U.S. troops.

According to the article its states that Murtha's time in the military hospital wards has had a profound impact on him and he finally coming to the point where he cannot rationalize the U.S. staying over there any longer (Stone, 2005). Mr. Murtha cannot rationalize the U.S. being over in Iraq because he now sees how the soldiers have been badly hurt maybe because of inadequate equipment that he knew they had when he voted to authorize Bush to send