Dems counter Bush attack with Iraq ads, about damn time they did

[madokie]

By DAVID ESPO

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061031/ap_on_go_pr_wh/election_rdp


WASHINGTON - Campaigning for Republicans, President Bush said Monday that "terrorists win and America loses" if opponents of his Iraq policy triumph in next week's elections. Undeterred, House Democrats countered with television ads critical of the war in several competitive races.


"There's a big national debate in this country about the direction of this war set by President Bush, Defense Secretary (Donald) Rumsfeld and Vice President Cheney, and Democrats think we need to change that policy," said Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel (news, bio, voting record), who heads the Democratic campaign committee.

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Without referring to her by name, Bush mocked House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi for saying Democrats love tax cuts. "Given her record, she must be a secret admirer," the president said to laughter, reeling off a list of tax cuts he said she opposed.

Turning to foreign policy — the issue that helped carry him and Republicans to victory in 2002 and 2004 — Bush ridiculed Democrats, saying they had "come up with a lot of creative ways to describe leaving Iraq before the job is done. ... However they put it, the Democrat approach to Iraq comes down to this: The terrorists win and America loses."

[cooolandrew]

1. Well, it all comes down to money, with less money they can only run ads near the election