CNN.com - Democrats pound GOP campaign ad - Nov. 23, 2003

Actually, I think this ad is not nearly as bad as the Democrats are saying. Certainly nothing like the ones that Saxby Chambliss ran with Max Cleland depicted alongside Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Nor the ads the GOP ran comparing Tom Daschle to Saddam Hussein for opposing the President. Those are unbelievably horrible examples of conservatives trying to claim ownership of patriotism while stooping to the lowest possible levels to get elected. This ad just says that dems are attacking the president for his fight on terrorism. It isn't accurate, but it isn't nearly as bad as the ones I mentioned already. Wes Clark has the winning retort so far:

I'm not attacking the president because he is attacking terrorists," said retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark, a Democratic presidential candidate. "I'm attacking him because he's not attacking terrorists."

Indeed. Seems pretty legitimate to be asking why we pulled out of Afghanistan and the border with Pakistan (we still have troops there, I realize, but not our full force) when we could have hunted Bin Laden down. Instead we decided to invade Iraq. And that was decided, evidently, the morning after 9-11.