Who is freedomswatch.org ?

I keep seeing TV commercials featuring disabled vets stating how angry the idea of leaving Iraq makes them.

From their about page:


One of the PDFs linked identifies the president as Bradley A. Blakeman, and lists 'supporters' as:



I want to know where they are getting their money.

-Hoot

My wife had on the Today Show...with Laura Ingram talking about how "sick" Hollywood is...but I digress and their commercials come on. First a woman who lost her hubby in 9-11 and her son in Iraq. In order to "honor" them we must have "victory." So other folks have to die so your son's death wasn't "in vain" to our "noble cause"? I hope they paid her well. She'll need it...

The second was a wounded soldier with glasses touting "only victory." Sad. If he truly beleives this and is not getting paid buttloads to it would destroy him to accept the truth.

The sick thing is that victory is unobtainable in this situation.

I want to know who is funding them as well. I smell Military Industrial Complex...or at least Neocon asshats...same smell.

Many channels, I don't know if they are national or local spots, but I've seen them on NBC, ABC and other cable channels.

I want to know if there are tax dollars in the kitty.

-Hoot

because any group with "freedom" or "America" prominently in its name sort of trips my alarms any more.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1790222#1790256

Thanks!

-Hoot

Really, I don't. They are a window into the way the Thuggery organizes the propaganda. Time well spent.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/11/AR2007091102316.html?hpid=topnews

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.

Six years later, the Sept. 11 attacks remain the touchstone of American politics, the most powerful force that can be summoned on behalf of an argument even as a nation united in their aftermath today stands divided on their meaning. While Washington spent yesterday's anniversary debating the U.S. involvement in Iraq, it struggled to define the relationship between the war there and the worldwide battle with al-Qaeda and other extremists.

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