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Home Front: Politix
Group targets Republican senators in anti-war advertising campaign
2007-09-07
Using images of children in combat camouflage, a coalition of US anti-war groups is airing about $500,000 in ads against Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and three other senators from his party facing re-election next year, urging them to "bring our troops home."
Because our troops are children, certainly not adult enough to choose to serve and sacrifice.
The ads come as official Washington turns its attention to a series of assessments on progress in Iraq that will culminate with a report next week from Gen. David Petraeus, the US military commander in Iraq. Sponsored by Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, the ads will also target Republican Sens. Norm Coleman, Susan Collins and Pete Domenici. The ads are scheduled to run for 10 days and will appear frequently on broadcast stations in the four senators' home states and nationally on cable. The ads depict children in fatigues in a training camp as an announcer says: "How long will Republican senators keep us stuck in Iraq? Should we start training our children now?"
Posted by:Fred

#7  Question is, where in the world did they get the video of child-soldiers? Somalia? Sudan? Any of the Middle Eastern nations? Palestine (oops, no, their kids strap on bombs too)?

Let's see...what do all these nations have in common? I just can't place my finger on it.
Posted by: BA   2007-09-07 10:51  

#6  Pre-18th Century - In the name of God(TM).
19th Century - In the name of the People(TM).
20th Century - In the name of the State(TM).
21st Century - In the name of the Children(TM).

Translation: Submission (which by the way happens to be what the word Islam means)
Posted by: Procopius2k   2007-09-07 08:58  

#5  I guess the left is more into "promoting the general welfare".

For values of "general welfare" that involve robbing from the productive and giving to the unproductive.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2007-09-07 08:36  

#4  I guess the left is more into "promoting the general welfare".

The left is more into f*cking everyone...
Posted by: badanov   2007-09-07 08:09  

#3  We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

I guess the left is more into "promoting the general welfare".
Posted by: Bobby   2007-09-07 06:38  

#2  They're not their troops; they wouldn't have any troops, just natural-disaster relief folks.

Provide for the national defense; it says so right there in the Constitution.
Posted by: Bobby   2007-09-07 06:36  

#1  HOTAIR > Video allegedly depicts AQ assassinating Dubya??? ALso, HUFFINGTON POST/OTHER > USA ABSOLUTELY UNREADY FOR NEW ATTACK, be it 9-11-style airliner or Nuke-WMD Terror, espec for post-attack "environmental consequences".
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-09-07 01:46  

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