11/29/2005
James Taranto of Opinionjournal.com noted this in his column “Best of The Web Today“:
Mistaken Identity
Yesterday we got an e-mail from an old friend who is a captain in the U.S. Army. He writes:I just got back from my third deployment from Iraq on Friday, and I happened to be at the dentist and saw a completely offensive ad from the idiots at MoveOn.org this morning. Anyway, it is a Bush-bashing ad that pretends to be arguing for American soldiers families as they will miss the holidays and it shows turkey and crying wives and blames Bush for it all. Here is the crucial part of the ad that I would like to bring to your attention. As they pretend to argue on my behalf, they show a group of soldiers standing around a table in the Middle East.
Here’s the scene to which our friend refers:
“A hundred and fifty thousand American men and women are stuck in Iraq,” according to the narration that accompanies this scene. Our friend (we’ve cleaned up a bit of his language for civilian consumption) continues:
These are not your normal everyday U.S. soldiers though. If you look at the frame they are actually British soldiers. One is in shorts (we don’t have shorts as a normal combat uniform) and the others are all clearly wearing British pattern fatigues. So, my point is that these [turkeys] pretend to argue on my behalf and bash the president in the name of my crying wife, and they don’t even know what an American soldier looks like! Anyway, it really [ticked] me off.
The only thing that would have made this more galling is if the ad had mentioned that the liberation of Iraq was “unilateral.”
This little excerpt underscores an important point that I’ve made before. Groups like MoveOn.org could care less about our troops. Just as they could care less about Cindy Sheehan, who they shuttled all over the country to speak out against that President and the war while she was still in the spotlight.
Instead, this organization and so many others simply want to hurt Republicans in general and the President in particular. And if they have to damage the morale of our troops to do it, well then, so be it. They probably think of it as “collateral damage.”
David Flanagan
Viewpointjournal.com
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