Independent Groups Spend Millions on Hard-Hitting Spots
By Howard Kurtz
Wednesday, October 27, 2004; Page A01
The sound of laughter at a media dinner as a tuxedo-clad President Bush makes light of the search for Iraqi weapons gives way to the plaintive voice of Brooke Campbell describing what happened 36 days later.
"My brother died in Baghdad on April 29th," she says. "I watched President Bush make a joke, looking around for weapons of mass destruction. My brother died looking for weapons of mass destruction."
The intensity of the Georgia woman's lament, in a television ad being financed by MoveOn PAC, is matched by that of Ashley Faulkner, whose mother was killed in the 2001 World Trade Center attack.
"He's the most powerful man in the world, and all he wants to do is make sure I'm safe," the Ohio teenager says in an ad from the Progress for America Voter Fund. The spot shows a still photo of a choked-up president hugging her.
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Campbell, who plans to follow Vice President Cheney to campaign stops beginning today, said she felt compelled to make the ad because her late brother, Ryan, had told her that he felt "lied to about the invasion of Iraq" -- and because she was angry that "Bush had not apologized for making a mistake." The liberal MoveOn PAC has also run ads on the president haltingly telling reporters he could not remember a mistake he had made, and on Pat Robertson saying Bush had told him there would be no casualties in Iraq.
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