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To: Lazarus_Long who started this subject	8/29/2004 3:24:37 AM
From: Proud Deplorable	Read Replies (2) of 90947

USOC asks Bush to withdraw TV ad A frame from the ad shown on the Bush campaign website THE US Olympic Committee has asked US President George W. Bush's re-election campaign to pull a television ad that mentions the Olympics. The USOC is awaiting a response from the re-election campaign, committee spokesman Darryl Seibel said yesterday. The ad shows a swimmer and the flags of Iraq and Afghanistan. An announcer says: "In 1972, there were 40 democracies in the world. Today, 120. "Freedom is spreading throughout the world like a sunrise. And this Olympics there will be two more free nations. And two fewer terrorist regimes," it adds. Some of the players on the Iraqi Olympic soccer team have complained about the ad appearing as part of a political campaign. "Iraq is not a free country, it's an occupied country," one of them was shown saying on the Greek TV yesterday. The Bush campaign said it had no intention of stopping the ads. They will continue to air through Sunday as originally scheduled, said Bush-Cheney spokesman Scott Stanzel. "We are on firm legal ground to mention the Olympics to make a factual point in a political advertisement," Stanzel said. The International Olympic Committee and the USOC have the authority to regulate the use of anything involving the Olympics. An act of Congress, last revised in 1999, grants the USOC exclusive rights to such terms as "Olympic," derivatives such as "Olympiad" and the five interlocking rings. It also specifically says the organisation "shall be non-political and may not promote the candidacy of an individual seeking public office." (AP, Athens News)

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