Yikes, the Freedom Watch Ads

[marmar]

by Chris Durang at HuffPost:
Yikes, the Freedom Watch Ads
Posted August 24, 2007 | 08:40 AM (EST)



Freedom's Watch ads.

Once again, selling the lie that 9/11 and invading Iraq are connected. THEY ARE NOT.

Once again, pretending that fighting in Iraq, which never had Al Qaeda in it until we invaded, is somehow connected to fighting the people who attacked us on 9/11.

I work in NYC once a week, I'm always going through tunnels and bridges to get there, I ride the subways - believe me, I'd LIKE IT if I felt the President was doing something that made America - and me - safer.

But invading Iraq has made us less safe, and has created many, many more terrorists. To recruit more Al Qaeda members, they can now say: "Look America wants to destroy Islam - they've invaded an Islamic country that didn't attack them." Right? Good tool for recruiting. After our early successes against Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, we got into the "let's make more terrorists" game by invading Iraq.

The invasion of Iraq was an idée fixe of the Bush administration, and loony Cheney, who (as we now know thanks to youtube) pointed out all the reasons that invading Iraq was fool-hardy back in 1994, then changed his mind for reasons I don't know, and after 9/11 started pushing and twisting intelligence to SELL America on the idea of invading Iraq.

Plus pre-emptive war is immoral, oh you bellicose Christians out there. And Iraq is the perfect proof of that - we were not in imminent danger, we had our facts wrong about WMD, Saddam wasn't almost having nuclear weapons (which I never believed even back then), and now we're in a quagmire.

The Freedom's Watch ads - designed to run in 20-so states to convince their representatives (mostly Republican, some Democrats) to support Bush in CONTINUING THE WAR UNTIL HELL FREEZES OVER - poignantly show soldiers without limbs telling us that if we withdraw from Iraq, their sacrifice will be for nothing. And also a wife whose brother died in 9/11 and whose husband died in Iraq - and she once again is holding the belief that the attack and our invasion are logically connected. We have to fight in Iraq because we were attacked on 9/11. .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-durang/yikes-the-freedom-watch-_b_61654.html

[snappyturtle]

1. I've watched all four videos several times. I just couldn't believe

the magnitude of deceipt. Unfortunately, we have learned before, if lies are repeated often enough they achieve factual status.

[shraby]

2. I believe someone was hung at the Nuremburg

trials for publishing propaganda for the Nazi machine. Ari better watch out if the people get really really angry about what has been going on.

[KoKo]

6. Have you seen Ari on TeeVee? He looks really depraved.

I wonder what someones got on him that he's suddenly resurfaced as a founder of Freedom's Watch? Or, is he pushing to replace Snow who is leaving as PS.

[wtmusic]

3. You gotta hand it to Republicans

They have no clue about compassion or responsibility, but they have fearmongering down to an absolute science. They are simply the best.

[OneBlueSky]

4. "if we withdraw from Iraq, their sacrifice will be for nothing" . . .

whether we withdraw tomorrow or ten years from now, their sacrifices will still have been for nothing . . . that was ensured when BushCo invaded and occupied the country based on nothing but lies and their greed for oil . . .

[Philosoraptor]

5. Exploiting the crippled and the dead since nine eleven, today's GOP!!!111