Pro-Iraq war commercials.
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9/11 Linked To Iraq, In Politics if Not in Fact
The television commercial is grim and gripping: A soldier who lost both legs in an explosion near Fallujah explains why he thinks U.S. forces need to stay in Iraq.
"They attacked us," he says as the screen turns to an image of the second hijacked airplane heading toward the smoking World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. "And they will again. They won't stop in Iraq."
Every investigation has shown that Iraq did not, in fact, have anything to do with the Sept. 11 attacks. But the ad, part of a new $15 million media blitz launched by an advocacy group allied with the White House, may be the most overt attempt during the current debate in Congress over the war to link the attacks with Iraq.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/11/AR2007091102316_pf.html
The television commercial is grim and gripping: A soldier who lost both legs in an explosion near Fallujah explains why he thinks U.S. forces need to stay in Iraq.
"They attacked us," he says as the screen turns to an image of the second hijacked airplane heading toward the smoking World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. "And they will again. They won't stop in Iraq."
Every investigation has shown that Iraq did not, in fact, have anything to do with the Sept. 11 attacks. But the ad, part of a new $15 million media blitz launched by an advocacy group allied with the White House, may be the most overt attempt during the current debate in Congress over the war to link the attacks with Iraq.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/11/AR2007091102316_pf.html
Socrtease
Verified User
IF you say a lie enough times the average person will believe it. But actually we went to Iraq because Saddam supported the Islamist Terrorists, or was it because he had WMD's, or because he was a tyrant, or because we want to foster democracy around the world, or.....? Same bullshit different day.
I posted the article above.
It really is pretty unreal. The truth regarding Iraq is on permanent holiday...
uscitizen
Villified User
The true history revisionists are at work big time.
Battleborne
Terminator
It smacks about patriotism.............
Like the commercials and movies during WWII and Korea...I am a Happy Camper that this trend is starting a return...gotta problemo...move to Iraq or wherever you think life is betta!
Like the commercials and movies during WWII and Korea...I am a Happy Camper that this trend is starting a return...gotta problemo...move to Iraq or wherever you think life is betta!
Freedom's Watch are the extreme Right's version, and answer to, moveon.org.
TheDanold
Unimatrix
Really? Never heard of them. I hadn't heard any commercials either.
Socrtease
Verified User
Except that in WWII they REALLY did attack us! Wow imagine that, we really were attacked by Japan so we went to war with gasp shock JA-fucking-PAN. Now before you bring up Germany, they declared war against us the next day so we treated them like we were at war with them. Korea, there is a good analogy, nothing happened in Korea except that we are now at a cease fire but the war has never ended. That is basically what is going to happen in Iraq. The war will never end. Is it PATRIOTISM to get wounded vets to get up on TV and say "they attacked us" when THEY, Iraq did NOT attack us? How is lying patriotic? This, I must admit, intrigues me.Like the commercials and movies during WWII and Korea...I am a Happy Camper that this trend is starting a return...gotta problemo...move to Iraq or wherever you think life is betta!
uscitizen
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Freedom's Watch is a new White House front group[1] of prominent conservatives with a pro-Israel agenda[2] masquerading as a grassroots movement (i.e. astroturf). Formed only two weeks prior,[3] it began a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign on August 22, 2007 "to urge members of Congress who may be wavering in their support for the war in Iraq not to 'cut and run'."[4]
It has been described as "a covert 'cut-out'[5] organization"[6] and an "outfit dedicated to keeping the war industry thriving."[7] "A sort of shadow White House communications shop has emerged to help the beleaguered president sell his unpopular war to the American people," Jake Tapper and Avery Miller wrote August 22, 2007, at ABC News.[8]
"The group is organized under section 501(c)4 of the tax code,[9] meaning that it can lobby on issues but cannot expressly advocate for specific candidates. Its stated mission is 'to ensure a strong national defense and a powerful effort to confront and defeat global terrorism'," Mike Allen wrote August 22, 2007, in The Politico.[10]
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Freedom's_Watch
It has been described as "a covert 'cut-out'[5] organization"[6] and an "outfit dedicated to keeping the war industry thriving."[7] "A sort of shadow White House communications shop has emerged to help the beleaguered president sell his unpopular war to the American people," Jake Tapper and Avery Miller wrote August 22, 2007, at ABC News.[8]
"The group is organized under section 501(c)4 of the tax code,[9] meaning that it can lobby on issues but cannot expressly advocate for specific candidates. Its stated mission is 'to ensure a strong national defense and a powerful effort to confront and defeat global terrorism'," Mike Allen wrote August 22, 2007, in The Politico.[10]
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Freedom's_Watch
And moveon.org is an actual grassroots group, whereas Freedom's Watch is an astroturf group.