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Congressman's TV campaign spots urge U.S. to bring troops home soon WASHINGTON -- The war in Iraq is the most urgent and perplexing issue facing the nation at the moment, so the congressman from Memphis who wants to be a U.S. senator needed to be out front -- of everybody -- with his views on the war last week. With the first television campaign commercial of the 2006 cycle, U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr., D-Tenn., introduced himself to all the major media markets in Tennessee with the message, "Let's work hard to bring them home soon, and with honor." And...

Before taking the podium the Marriott in Knoxville on Friday, U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr. made his presence known by making his way to every table at the Freedom Fund dinner. After smiling for pictures with dozens of people at the event hosted by the Knoxville branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Ford put on a serious face to talk about the war in Iraq. Advertisement Ford, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2006, spent his Memorial Day weekend in Iraq. After that visit, Ford knows the NAACP theme, "The Struggle for Freedom...