MoveOn Targets Brownback With Untruthful Ads

MoveOn ads target Brownback - though he opposes the Iraq troop surge:

WASHINGTON - A liberal group is airing ads around the country this week criticizing several Republican senators for supporting President Bush's troop escalation in Iraq. Among the ads' targets is Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback.

The problem: Brownback doesn't support the 21,500-troop buildup. In fact, he was among the first Republican senators to oppose it publicly and he remains the party's only presidential candidate in the anti-surge camp.

The ads, by Moveon.org Political Action, criticize the senators for supporting the troop increase and for blocking a vote on a nonbinding resolution condemning it.

In the ads, a photograph of Brownback is shown with the word "escalate" in a cartoon bubble next to his mouth. The voiceover says Brownback and other Republicans are "willing to send tens of thousands more troops to face danger in Iraq, but they don't have the courage to face a vote."

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My Comments:
The sun rises in the east. Leftist interest groups lie. So what else is new?

The real news here is that MoveOn sees the need to spend its money to target Sen. Brownback with these ads. Why?