DNC Releases New Ad on John McCain: "100"

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http://www.democrats.org/a/2008/04/dnc_ad_on_mccai.php

For Immediate Release
April 27, 2008

Contact: Karen Finney/ Damien LaVera

DNC Releases New Ad on John McCain: "100"
McCain Is "Fine" Keeping Our Troops In Iraq For 100 Years

Screenshot of Ad-Click to ViewWashington, DC -- On NBC's Meet the
Press
this morning, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean
announced that the DNC will air its second television advertisement of
the 2008 Presidential Election season. Entitled "100," the ad will
begin
airing on cable networks nationally next week. While John McCain and
the
Republican Party are hoping voters will forget that McCain is "fine"
with
the Bush Administration's open-ended commitment IN Iraq, the DNC will
again give voters the chance to see and hear John McCain in his own
words.

The ad features Senator McCain telling a town hall audience that
despite
the long war having cost our country $500 billion and 4,000 lives,
staying in Iraq for 100 years "would be fine with me." The ad ends
with
the question all Americans must ask themselves when they go to the
ballot
box this November: "If all he offers is more of the sameâ€|.is John
McCain
the right choice for America's future?"

John McCain's position on the war in Iraq is proving to be a political
liability with voters who don't want more of the same disastrous Bush
policies in Iraq. While just 31 percent of Americans approve of
President
Bush's handling of the war, McCain continues to be one of the most
vocal
supporters of the President's failed strategy there. And with the
fifth
anniversary of Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech Thursday, voters
will
be reminded of how wrong Bush and McCain have been on the war every
step
of the way.

This is the second ad the Democratic National Committee has launched
this
campaign season to expose McCain for the weak candidate that he is.
Last
week, the DNC launched the ad "Better Off," featuring John McCain
explaining to the American people that despite the stark reality to
the
contrary, he thinks we "overall are better off" than we were eight
years
ago. As the campaign season continues, the DNC will continue to use
McCain's words as proof that a vote for McCain is a vote for a third
Bush
term.

"What John McCain doesn't understand is that the American people
aren't
fine with being in Iraq for 100 years in any capacity," said
Democratic
National Committee Chairman Howard Dean. "The American people want a
President who will responsibly end the war, not more of the same
failed
policy in Iraq that continues to cost $12 billion a month. They want
a
President who will invest that money here at home to create jobs and
ensure our kids have health care. The more voters learn about John
McCain, we're confident they will recognize that he is the wrong
choice
for America's future."

To view the ad click on the link below:
http://www.democrats.org/a/2008/04/dnc_ad_on_mccai.php

Script of DNC Ad: "100"

Video

Audio

Question from audience over a card with CG: Senator McCain, President
Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for 50 years.

McCain answers.

CG: 100 years in Iraq
McCain video

Scenes of Iraq CG with no announcer:
5 years - $500 Billion Spent - over 4,000 dead



Back to McCain video split screen with Iraq footage

Freeze - CG over picture of McCain and Bush: Is John McCain the Right
Choice for America's Future?

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President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for 50 yearsâ€|

Maybe 100.

That would be fine with me.





President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq 50 yearsâ€|

Maybe 100.


If all he offers is more of the sameâ€|.is John McCain the right choice
for
America's future?



The Democratic National Committee is responsible for the content of
this
advertising.

Research From DNC Ad: "100"

Audio

Video

Backup

President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for 50 yearsâ€|

Question from audience over a card with CG: Senator McCain, President
Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for 50 years.

Bush has talked about our troops being in Iraq for 50 years. "Tony
Snow,
the White House press secretary, told reporters Bush believes U.S.
forces
eventually will end their combat role in Iraq but will continue to be
needed in the country to deter threats and to help handle potential
crises, as they have done in South Korea. The United States has kept
forces in South Korea since war erupted with North Korea in 1950 and
currently has about 30,000 troops there."

100 Years Questioner: "Everyone Who Was There That Night Got It: We
Weren't Getting Out Anytime Soon." According to Dave Tiffany, the
questioner at the McCain town hall in New Hampshire who prompted
McCain
to pledge his allegiance to staying in Iraq for 100 years, "While
splitting hairs over the meaning of campaign rhetoric, all ignore the
fact that McCain advocates an open-ended presence in Iraq, and the
consequences that would follow from such a commitment. McCain's words
left little room for interpretation. By saying that he was fine with
staying in Iraq for 100 years, he made clear his commitment to staying
the course and, further, to remaining in Iraq for years after the
country
is pacified, assuming that's ever possible. Everyone who was there
that
night got it: we weren't getting out anytime soon." Post,
4/7/2008]

McCain's Notion Of 100 Year US Presence In Iraq "Betrays A Fairly
Acute
Lack Of Knowledge About Both Iraq And Islam." "Time Columnist Joe
Klein
writes, "The problem with John McCain's 100 years in Iraq formulation
isn't that he's calling for 95 more years of combat--he isn't--but
that
he thinks you can have a long-term basing arrangement in Iraq similar
to
those we have in Germany or Korea. That betrays a fairly acute lack of
knowledge about both Iraq and Islam. It may well be possible to
station
U.S. troops in small, peripheral kingdoms like Dubai or Kuwait, but
Iraq
is--and has always been--volatile, tenuous, centrally-located and
nearly
as sensitive to the presence of infidels as Saudi Arabia. It is a
terrible candidate for a long-term basing agreement." Swampland,
4/1/2008]

Maybe 100.

That would be fine with me.

McCain answers.
CG: 100 years in Iraq
McCain video

2008: McCain Said US May Stay In Iraq For 100 Years. At a New
Hampshire
town hall when McCain was asked "President Bush has talked about our
staying in Iraq for 50 years." McCain responded: "Maybe 100." Town Hall, Derry NH Opera House 1/3/2008]

President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq 50 yearsâ€|

Scenes of Iraq CG with no announcer:
5 years

$500 Billion Spent

over 4,000 dead

Iraq War Has Lasted Five Years
The U.S. invaded Iraq on March 20, 2003.

Cost Of Iraq War Exceeds $500 Billion So Far. "The United States has
poured more than $500 billion into Iraq, mostly for military
operations.
But that figure is just a small piece of the much larger bill that
taxpayers will pay in the future. Because the money for the war is
being
borrowed, interest payments could add another $615 billion. A heavily
depleted military will have to be rebuilt at a cost of $280 billion.
Disability benefits and health care for Iraq war veterans, many of
them
severely injured, could add another half-trillion dollars over their
lifetime."

Over 4,000 American Military Personnel Have Died in The Conflict. As
of
April 24, 4,046 American soldiers, Marines, airmen, sailors and Coast
Guardsmen have died in the Iraq War.
<http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/>

McCain: "We're Going To "Win This Victory" And "It Will Be Brief."
McCain
said, "Well, I'll tell you why Mr.
Churchill's fate]. It's because we're going to win this victory.
Tragically, we will lose American lives. But it will be brief."
and Colmes, 2/21/03]

2002, 2003: McCain Proclaimed Success In Iraq Would Be "Easy." In the
run
up to War with Iraq, McCain repeatedly emphasized that the conflict
would
be "easy." Speaking in September 2002 about the prospect of invading
Iraq, McCain said he thought it would not be a difficult conflict.
McCain
said, "I believe that the success will be fairly easy." In
January of 2003, McCain again predicted the same about invading Iraq,
saying, "we will win this conflict. We will win it easily." "Larry
King Live," 9/24/2002; CNN.com, 1/22/2003]

Maybe 100.

Back to McCain video split screen with Iraq footage

McCain Said No One Anticipated Iraq Would Be A Long War. Campaigning
in
Rhode Island for Senator Lincoln Chafee, John McCain claimed that no
one
warned the war in Iraq would last as long as it has. McCain said to a
crowd of 500 at Chaffee's home, "Mistakes have been made in this war.
It
has lasted much longer than any of us have ever anticipated." 6/18/2006]

If all he offers is more of the sameâ€|.is John McCain the right choice
for
America's future?

Freeze - CG over picture of McCain and Bush: Is John McCain the Right
Choice for America's Future?

McCain Echoed Bush's Case For War. As early as 2001 McCain was helping
to
make the case for war with Iraq alongside Donald Rumsfeld. During a
November 2001 appearance on ABC's Nightline, McCain echoed Rumsfeld
and
CIA director James Woolsey on the case for invading Iraq, using the
same
misleading rhetoric. Rumsfeld claimed there were ties "between the
terrorists in the Philippines and the al-Qaeda and people in Iraq."
Woolsey suggested Iraq had "been involved in terrorist acts against
the
United States." And John McCain, given a chance to disagree, instead
echoed both men and the Bush Administration, claiming there had "been
significant involvement on the part of the Iraqis and Saddam Hussein
in
the acts of terror that have been committed in the past." "Nightline," 11/28/2001]

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