Letters to the Editor
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MoveOn should have known better
Not to disagree with what MoveOn said or their right to say it, but with the Iraq strategy an ongoing disaster and this briefing not changing that, the better approach would have been to just stand aside and let the bad news remain in the spotlight. By running this ad, MoveOn gave the Repubs a cheap and easy way out, in fact they could even use their same old 'question the patriotism and values of the anti-war crowd' technique to help shore up a base that must be having serious doubts by now.
In short, as Napoleon said, "Never interrupt your opponent when he is making a mistake." Though this response from the Repubs is illuminating, its net effect is to distract from the real issue, which means that in this case, MoveOn has hurt its own cause.