McCain surrogate causes stir

There's another surrogate controversy.

This time, it's Bud Day, who was a POW with Republican John McCain in Vietnam, and now supports his presidential bid.

In a conference call with reporters yesterday organized by the Florida Republican Party, Day defended the Iraq war by saying, "the Muslims have said either we kneel, or they're going to kill us." "I don't intend to kneel, and I don't advocate to anybody that we kneel, and John doesn't advocate that we kneel," Day added, according to audio posted by the Miami Herald.

An official with the Council on American-Islamic Relations told CNN that McCain should repudiate the remarks. The McCain campaign issued a short statement to CNN saying, "The threat we face is from radical Islamic extremism."

Day was also in Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which in the 2004 presidential race condemned Senator John F. Kerry's antiwar activities and tried to discredit his war record.