Brad Haynes reports on Iraq and the presidential race. Seizing on Iraqi officials’ endorsement of a troop withdrawal timeline similar to the one proposed by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, a new ad from a veterans’ political group accuses GOP rival John McCain of impinging on the “Iraqi freedom” they fought for. VoteVets.org, which claims 100,000 members, tries to get Iraq and Afghanistan veterans elected; so far, VoteVets has endorsed mostly Democrats. The group’s new ad features close-ups of Iraq war veteran Brandon Woods of New York, who addresses the camera against a dark background and the roll of a snare drum. “What did we fight for in Iraq?” Woods asks. “I have some idea. I fought in Operation Iraqi Freedom. And ‘freedom’ means when the Iraqi people and their prime minister ask us to make a plan to...
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