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MoveOn Ad Hits McCain Saying Iraq Escalation Is 'Actually His Idea'
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ABC News' Teddy Davis Reports: In an effort to isolate a politician who has long played for the center on the right, MoveOn.org, a liberal advocacy group, is launching a $250,000 television ad buy ripping Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), the GOP's 2008 presidential frontrunner, for wanting to send more U.S. troops to Iraq.
"John McCain has done more than just embrace George Bush's failed policy in Iraq. It's actually his idea to escalate the war there," the narrator claims in the ad which begins airing today in Iowa and New Hampshire, two states that host crucial early nominating contests.
Danny Diaz, a McCain spokesperson, responded to MoveOn's ad by telling ABC News: "MoveOn.Org is an out-of-the-mainstream organization that has a long history of airing inflammatory material, even comparing the President to Hitler. It is not surprising that a liberal group opposed to military action after September 11th would attack Senator McCain's conservative values, as well as changing strategy and securing victory in Iraq."
Diaz’s attack on MoveOn refers to Eli Pariser, the group's current executive director, starting an on-line petition following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 urging "moderation and restraint". Contrary to the claim of McCain's spokesman, MoveOn as an organization never opposed a post-9/11 military response in Afghanistan. Pariser had not joined MoveOn when he started his petition.
MoveOn's ad attacking McCain's position on President Bush's plan to send more than 20,000 additional U.S. troops to Iraq follows attacks on this issue by two Democratic presidential candidates. Former Gov. Tom Vilsack, D-Iowa, was the first to cast McCain as the architect of the troop increase. Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., took the line of attack up a notch, casting Bush's plan as "the McCain Doctrine" while appearing on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos."
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