Raw Story: MoveOn.org announces ad campaign against Bush's use of 9/11

[Robbien]

The political action organization MoveOn.org has announced the placement of a new television advertisment which will condemn President Bush for "exploiting" the 9/11 attacks to bolster the election chances for Republicans in the mid-term elections.

MoveOn spent $100,000 for the ad-buy, and the thirty-second spots will begin running nationwide later this week (when available, RAW STORY will post the ads).

In a statement issued by MoveOn.org, the group said that the ad, "Exploiting 9/11," will remind "Americans of the now discredited claims and promises made by the President and Republican leaders in Congress about the connection between 9/11 and Sadaam Hussein; the capture of Osama bin Laden; and making the country safer by invading Iraq."

Eli Pariser, Executive Director of MoveOn Political Action said in the statement, "It is shameful that President Bush, who falsely used 9/11 to lead us into the fiasco in Iraq, continues to use exploit 9/11 to try to bolster the sagging fortunes of the Republican Party."

A full transcript of the ad follows...

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/MoveOn.org_announces_ad_campaign_against_Bushs_0912.html

[Change has come]

1. K&R and Donated

$100,000.00 isn't enough.

https://political.moveon.org/donate/donate.html

[ProgressiveEconomist]

2. It would be truer to say that DUBYA was harboring AQ in "No Fly Zone"

Northeastern Iraqi Kurdistan than to argue, as Cheney did on Meet the Press Sunday, that Saddam was harboring Zarqawi. Saddam had no control over that area. Dubya did, and he called off three airstrikes the Pentagon wanted to make against Zarqawi's Halabja Valley camp between June 2002 and March 2003. The October 25 2004 Wall Street Journal says,

"But the raid on Mr. Zarqawi didn't take place. Months passed with no approval of the plan from the White House, until word came down just weeks before the March 19, 2003, start of the Iraq war that Mr. BUSH HAD REJECTED ANY STRIKE ON THE CAMP UNTIL AFTER AN OFFICIAL OUTBREAK OF HOSTILITIES WITH IRAQ. Ultimately, the camp was hit just after the invasion of Iraq began. . . .

But by then Zarqawi was gone! I hope one of the MoveOn ads manages to convey this complex message in some simple way.

See http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2122494&mesg_id=2122494

[texpatriot2004]

3. K & R nm

[HuffleClaw]

4. what station managers will have the stones to air 'em?

[ProgressiveEconomist]

5. kick