Fox to run McCain "100 years in Iraq" ad

The DNC has been placing this ad all over the country. It essentially features the 71-year-old John McCain saying that staying in Iraq for 100 years would be "fine with me", shows some Iraq combat scenes, then replays McCain's quote.

This has got the RNC apoplectic, threatening television stations with lawsuits if they run the ad. It's all sort of weird, they claim that it's "out of context" and whatnot, but the context is quite clear. McCain has no problem staying in Iraq for 100 years.

So what's the GOP's beef? McCain's quote is edited in the ad. Without the edit, his answer would be:

Maybe 100. As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed, it's fine with me.

Problem is, Americans are being injured, harmed, wounded, and killed, and there's no end in sight. So given that McCain has no plan to end the violence (the "surge" hasn't accomplished that, with April seeing a rise in American casualties), and given that he has no exit strategy, and given that Republicans consider any withdrawal "surrender", fact is, we're stuck in Iraq until McCain is 171 years old unless we elect a president that will bring our troops home. And that's fine with him.

If McCain truly thinks the ad is unfair, he can then answer the question, "how long do our troops need to keep dying in Iraq before you would pull them out?" No magic pony answers. The violence isn't going away. So given that reality, how long will our troops have to stay in Iraq given the never-ending violence? If McCain answers that question directly, then this DNC ad will be instantly obsolete.

As it is, despite the RNC's bluster, the ad is perfectly in context. Brilliantly so, in fact.

Today, the DNC announced that despite the RNC's legal threats, Fox News had decided to air the ad. It appears that even the RNC's official propaganda arm doesn't buy their party's arguments.