Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA), who switched from the Republicans to the Democrats earlier this year, is now trying to seize the left ground against his primary challenger, Rep. Joe Sestak. Specter’s campaign is accusing Sestak of flip-flopping by supporting the Afghanistan surge, when he’d previously wanted a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq — and Sestak is firing back that Specter supported George W. Bush on Iraq and Afghanistan.
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