Politics over principal

Unsurprisingly, MoveOn.org is working to defeat Rep. Baird when he runs for re-election next year after he came back from Iraq and reported on the military successes there.

MoveOn, of course, is a Democratic front-group which has long been anti-war and is willing to say and do whatever is required to ensure that the United States lose the war in Iraq. So, it should come as no surprise that they are still denying the successes in Iraq in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Nice!

MoveOn targets pro-surge Democrat
The Hill

Rep. Brian Baird's (D-Wash.) recent conversion on the Iraq war is beginning to affect more than the national dialogue. On Wednesday, liberal group MoveOn.org announced an ad campaign against the congressman is his own district.

Baird recently returned from a trip to Iraq and reversed his position on a withdrawal timetable, citing military progress in the four-year-old war.

MoveOn is calling the move a "flip-flop" and says it goes against the views of his constituents.

The ad does not make specific reference to Baird's conversion. Instead, it features a soldier who served in Iraq talking about the amount of resistance troops encountered and at the end asks viewers to tell Baird to bring the troops home.

The soldier in the ad served in Iraq in 2003 and 2004 and describes a scene from that time, long before the current troop increase that Baird has cited as the reason for military progress.

Baird voted against the war in 2003 and had opposed it until last month. Republicans have been quick to key on his remarks as evidence of progress in Iraq.

MoveOn disagrees, calling the war "unwinnable."