MoveOn Criticizes McCain

As much as I dislike political ads, I found MoveOn.org's latest campaign interesting. It criticizes McCain's support for escalating the Iraq War. Some make the argument that the reason McCain has made such a PR push for escalating the war is because he was betting that Bush would cave to the Iraq Study Group report. If Bush had caved to that report and started withdrawing troops McCain could have said... if Bush only would have listened to me and added troops.

Now that McCain's bet has backfired, he is busy advocating that the escalation isn't the troop increases he was suggesting (30-50 thousand, not 21 which Bush championed last week). It just became that much more difficult for McCain to gain any distance from the failed policies of the Bush Administration.

As the violence increases and stability decreases with this escalation policy both McCain and Bush may be wishing they had followed the majority advice of military and political leaders, not to mention the American people.



http://moveon.org/pac/iraqad/index.html

Posted at Wednesday, January 17, 2007
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