TV Ad Focuses on U.S. Military Wounded in Iraq

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=6493633&src=rss/politicsNews§ion=news
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new television ad sponsored by U.S. veterans strongly questions President Bush's case for war in Iraq, but the group behind it said on Wednesday the spot was not meant to benefit either presidential candidate.

First aired hours before the last presidential debate between Republican Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry, the ad shows a U.S. Iraq war veteran talking about the justification for the war as he shows the stump of his amputated arm.

The veteran, Robert Acosta, says in the ad: "I was called to serve in Iraq because the government said there were weapons of mass destruction, but they weren't there ... So when people ask me where my arm went, I try to find the words, but they're not there."

The ad was shown repeatedly on CNN on Wednesday.

[juliagoolia]

1. we need to give these folks money

because they can put a real face and real cost on this catastrophic mistake bush has made!

[riverwalker]

2. Operation Truth

www.optruth.org

[clydefrand]

3. I've seen this ad twice this afternoon and once yesterday.

We need more of the "reality" ads to make people aware of what is going on this war.

[riverwalker]

4. Vets buy ads to do what media should

This is what the state of the press has come to in America.
Our soldiers have to collect money to buy ads to tell their story, because the press won't. The media should have been doing this all along, instead of propping up bu$hcos war.

[bobbieinok]

8. + Vets have to buy equipment that govt should supply

[Kimber Scott]

5. I've seen it. It's quite powerful. But, Acosta better not try to run for

office 30 years from now. Some people will say he is a traitor and his arm was only "nicked" off and that he probably did it himself.

[Leilani]

6. Saw the ad today

& it was so powerful!

[Shallah Kali]

7. article up on yahoo - please rate!

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041013/pl_nm/campaign_military_ad_dc_1

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