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In this April 16, 2008, file photo shows Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., introducing Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., not pictured, at a union meeting in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) 

Rep. Murtha, Iraq war critic, dies

Rep. John Murtha, a retired Marine Corps officer who became the first Vietnam War combat veteran elected to Congress and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War, died Monday. He was 77.

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