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Opponents are attacking Bush for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq which rose from 9/11 (go ahead and claim Iraq was planned before 9/11 we've heard it all before).
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Except that its pretty clearly true. Look st the memos Paul O'Neil released and there you have it, an invasion of Iraq on the agenda of a national security meeting right after Bush takes office, long before 9/11. No one from the Bush camp has denied this, to my knowledge. In Bob Woodwrd's Bush at war using the 9/11 attacks as a pretext to launch a long-planned invasion of Iraq comes up in one of the first National Security Council meetings after the attack.
I agree that some of the imagrey in the ads is in poor taste, particularly the coffin draped in the American flag. At the same time, making 9/11, or Bush's leadership right after 9/11, off-limits is bullshit. Saying "Our country went through a trying time, and I led us through it" is not low politics, its a statement of a perfectly valid reason why we might want to reelect Bush.
Note that generally I'm in the anyone-but-Bush crowd.