RNC Wants anti-McCain Ad Pulled

By Eric on April 30, 2008

The DNC launched a new ad this week targeting John McCain for his pledge for a hundred years of war in Iraq.

John McCain and the RNC are absolutely furious over the ad, claiming that it takes McCain’s words out of context (and, as BarbinMD rightly points out, that’s their job). According to McCain and the RNC, the DNC forgot to include the part where McCain likens the 100 years in Iraq to our occupations of Germany, Japan, and South Korea–in other words, the hundred year clock doesn’t start until American soldiers stop being killed, but McCain doesn’t offer any explanation of how long that part of the Glorious War will take (probably because in GOP fantasy land, the war is already over and we’ve already won).

Gov. Dean responded to McCain and the RNC on Meet the Press:

You can also check out McSame’s well-documented calls for more wars and longer wars.

Update: Via MyDD, another video of McCain trying to compare keeping our soldiers in Iraq where 4,000 have been killed so far to our bases in friendly countries.

Yes, we have military bases in Germany, but no German militia is launching mortars at them 24/7. Keeping American soldiers in the middle of the violent Iraqi civil war for a thousand years is not the same as stationing troops at Ramstein Air Force Base.

Tags: 2008, DNC, Howard Dean, Iraq, John McCain, RNC

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