New MoveOn Web Ad: Bush-McCain Strategy "Endless War On The Installment Plan"
"How do you get to 100 years in Iraq?," asks liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org in a new Web ad targeting John McCain.
Their answer: "Six months at a time."
The spot shows McCain, President Bush, and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld making statements about the war as far back as 2003; McCain is quoted in December 2005, for example, saying "...we will probably see significant progress in the next six months to a year."
As these quotes are shown, the cost of the war – in lives and dollars – is shown at the bottom of the screen, steadily increasing.
The minute long spot winds down with a McCain quote from two days ago in which the Arizona senator is quoted saying "success is within reach."
It closes with this: "The Bush-McCain strategy: Endless war...on the installment plan."
Watch it:
UPDATE: Republican National Committee Spokesman Alex Conant emails a response: "Moveon.org's strategy of retreat will leave Iraq to the terrorists and ultimately draw the U.S. into a wider and more costly war in the future. As major fact check and media organizations have confirmed, John McCain has never said that he wants the Iraq war to last 100 years – and any suggestion to the contrary is irresponsible. No one opposes war more than John McCain."