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4:44 PM, Feb 8, 2008 • By BRIAN FAUGHNAN

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MoveOn.org wants its supporters to know that when it comes to national security, John McCain backed the war in Iraq. Worse: he backed the surge! As the memo says:

Senator John McCain presents himself as a maverick and a critic of the Iraq war. But a close read of his record indicates that his position on the Iraq war has consistently matched President George W. Bush's.

Of course they have it exactly backward. McCain's position on the war hasn't matched Bush's, but Bush's positions have come to match McCain's. You'd think MoveOn would be content merely to point this out (isn't it worse, from their perspective, that McCain was out ahead of Bush on all this?). But to do so would implicitly link McCain to the current successes in Iraq. Can't have that...

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