McGavick criticizes Bush over Iraq warDistancing himself from the president, the latest TV ad by the Republican candidate for the Senate is critical of the progress in Iraq.
By Matthew Daly
Associated Press WASHINGTON - Washington state's Republican U.S. Senate candidate, Mike McGavick, stepped up efforts to distance himself from President Bush by accusing the president of failing to understand voter frustrations about the Iraq war.
"President Bush isn't getting our frustrations. It's time to be decisive - beat the terrorists," McGavick says in a new TV ad running this week. "Partition the country if we have to and get our troops home in victory."
The new ad, which is running statewide, follows recent comments by McGavick that he would have voted against the Iraq invasion if he'd known there were no weapons of mass destruction. McGavick also urged Bush to fire Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
The president on Wednesday repeated his support for Rumsfeld, saying he was doing a "fantastic" job.
HeraldNet News---
It's an odd concept of
victory to think we'll "partition the country...and get our troops home" unless he means a victory for the troops and their families to finally be out of harms way. The problems in Iraq aren't going away any time soon and the "sweep it under the rug" strategy is too cowardly to then declare victory. It sounds like a talking-point Saddam Hussein would have used.