JoseCuervo
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The Swift Boat ads aren't the only ones causing controversy these days. The Bush-Cheney '04 re-election team has also been running ads that feature the Olympics. The ad in question features an announcer saying, "And this Olympics there will be two more free nations. And two fewer terrorist regimes."
Soon after the ad started running, the Iraqi soccer team asked Bush to stop running it - a player was quoted last week saying, "Iraq as a team does not want Mr. Bush to use us for the presidential campaign." But that wasn't enough to get him to stop.
Now, the US Olympic Committee has stepped into the fray and asked that Bush-Cheney '04 stop running the ad. The USOC and the International Olympic Committee have the final say on the use of anything involving the Olympics.
A spokesman for Bush-Cheney '04 said in response to the controversy over the Olympic ad, "We are on firm legal ground to mention the Olympics and make a factual point in a political advertisement."
Well, since the Olympic Committee has asked that the ads stop, maybe Bush-Cheney '04 can start making factual statements about their record over the last four years:
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- 2,931,000 jobs lost in the private sector since Bush took office.</font>
- 50 percent increase in out-of-pocket health care costs for workers since Bush took office.</font>
- 37 percent increase in the unemployment rate since Bush took office.</font>
- 11.5 percent increase in gas prices since 2000
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