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DNC: John McCain Continues Desperate Distortions on Iraq
May 1, 2008John McCain and his Republican allies continued their desperate attempts to deflect attention from McCain's own words about his willingness to keep our troops in Iraq for 100 years. During a media availability in Allentown, McCain said the Democratic National Committee's new "100" ad distorts his words. But, as the New York Times noted, "In the commercial, Mr. McCain's words speak for themselves" and are "not misstated." Worse still, McCain's allies at the Republican National Committee blatantly misrepresented the source of footage in the DNC's ad, even as they defended Republican ads using footage of Osama bin Laden taken from Al-Jazeera. [New York Times, The Caucus blog, 4/28/08; ABCNews.com, Political Punch blog, 4/30/08] Full release