This is devastating. The Democratic National Committee has launched a new political campaign commercial attacking GOP presidential candidate John McCain's comment on how the U.S. should continue the war in Iraq for 100 years. From YouTube:
This is exactly how you attack John McCain. You hit McCain hard with his own words. The problem with the McCain campaign is that they do not have a coherent policy for the U.S. war in Iraq--except for continuing the Bush administration's disastrous policy of maintaining the current U.S. occupation of Iraq. McCain does claim that he envisions U.S. troops to be stationed in Iraq similar to the role of U.S. military presence in South Korea, Japan and Germany. But the problem with that strategy is that the U.S. presence in South Korea, Japan and Germany is maintained to deter a potential outside aggression from another country--specifically a potential North Korean invasion of South Korea, and the Soviet Union's potential invasion of Japan and Germany. There really is no outside aggressive threat against Iraq at this time. I do not think that Iran is considered much of an aggressive threat against Iraq, considering that Iraqi Shiites would probably welcome closer diplomatic and economic ties with Iran. And as for al Qaeda in Iraq, estimates of the number of al Qaeda fighters vary from 1,000 to 30,000 fighters. I don't think anyone really knows how many al Qaeda fighters are in Iraq, although I'm sure the McCain campaign would use the 30,000 figure to bolster their support for continuing the U.S. war in Iraq.
The bottom line here is that John McCain has every intention of continuing with this disastrous war into his presidency. And McCain will use any excuse, lie, or even political spin to continue a war that a majority of the American people oppose. How do you stop the McCain campaign from continuing this disastrous war?
By attacking John McCain with political ads like these.
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