(Let me know if this was already posted... I did a search but didn't see it.)
Last week, over at Bull Moose (the motto's been changed to "All Bull, No Moose"), Marshall Wittman chose to bring up the mercenaries killed in Iraq last year and Markos' unfortunate "Screw 'em" post (which he subsequently recanted).
Why bring this up? (And continue to bring it up?)
Wittman likes Lieberman. Kos apparently appeared in a Lamont commercial (I haven't seen it, being in Illinois and all). And after the delegate vote in Connecticut, in which Lamont's surprisingly strong showing scared the bejeezus outta the Lieberman camp, Wittman's got an ax to grind.
So Wittman dragged the "Screw 'em" episode out of the attic trunk. Only he didn't say they were mercenaries.
In true Rovian fashion, he called them "American victims of terrorism"...
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