"Freedom Watch" complained about their not running these "war propoganda" ads. Guess it worked! The Republican party doesn't know how to "support the troops," but they surely know how to "use the troops" for their partisan, political advantage!
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/22/ari-fleischer-returns/Original Iraq War Propagandist Ari Fleischer Returns To Flack For Bush’s Escalation
Beginning today, Freedom’s Watch, a new right-wing front group for the White House, “will unveil a month-long, $15 million television, radio and grass-roots campaign” to pressure Congress to continue supporting President Bush’s disastrous Iraq strategy. The group, which is “funded by high-profile Republicans who were aides and supporters of President Bush,” is headed by a familiar face from the Bush war effort: former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer.
The privately-funded ad campaign will run in 20 states, featuring Iraq war vets and families of fallen soldiers arguing that the war should continue. The four ads produced so far by Fleischer’s Freedom’s Watch group contain little more than fear-mongering about an Iraq pullout. “They attacked us and they will again. They won’t stop in Iraq,” one ad says. “It will mean more attacks in America,” says another. Yet another ad warns, “We’ve already had one 9/11, we don’t need another.”
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