Sun, 09/09/2007 - 1:07pm — Sarah
Take a look at this.
I think we need more of these ads.
It points up the nature of "the troops" beautifully. They're about 7 to 8 years older, average, than the kids in this ad who are not, note, wearing special "kid-size" uniforms -- those are the standard "small" and "extra small" bdu's, and about size 7 boots.
But look at those kids again.
Girls.
Black kids.
Hispanic kids.
Clearly not the children of "our betters" or our "elites" or our "chattering classes."
Kids like mine, and probably yours.
Not kids like the Bushes, Cheneys, McCains ... or even the Kennedys, Clintons, or Obamas.
It doesn't HAVE to go on being like this.
But it's liable to unless we, the progressive people who don't live inside the Beltway, get off our butts and solve our own problems.
Recall elections for Senators and Congressmen.
Impeachment for the Executive Branch.
We need not, yet, take to the streets with pitchforks and torches. But we'd damn well better start using the weapons our Constitution does give us against the Government that's doing its dead-level best to rescind that very same Constitution.
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I suppose it would have been offensive ...
I suppose it could have been offensive -- not that leaving it out will stop the tightie-whitie-righties from taking offense, nothing ever does that, they're permanently offended no matter what -- but it would have been fine with me to also show some right-wing Senator's son or daughter, in full prep wide-stripe regalia, taking a long, contemptuous, wide-stance, arms-folded, down-the-nose look at these kids in uniform, before turning and walking off to Daddy's limo.
Good ad, though. More like this, amen.
With kind regards,
Dog, etc.
i remember home
5 years, 10 years, 20 years, 50 years
Those are the various figures we've heard for the permanent war in Iraq. So, for the kids in the ad, only the first time frame means they won't be going off to die for the Imperial bottom line.
Really makes the issue not so abstract, doesn't it?
We. Are. Going. To. Die. We must restore hope in the world. We must bring forth a new way of living that can sustain the world. Or else it is not just us who will die but everyone. What have we got to lose? Go forth and Fight!—Xan
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Excellent ad
Thanks, Sarah, for posting it...
It conjured something in my mind:
ANTI-WAR PSA
Scene
Fade in--Exterior Day--: a volcano boils, lava shoots skyward.
Ext. Day--Volcano
Various angles: A young native girl and boy are led to the lip of the volcano by so-called savages...the virgin couple are to be sacrificed.
Cut to:
Ext.--Exterior Day--soldiers in combat gear sit in swirling dust, the shadows of helicopter blades pass by in slow-motion as they squint at camera's POV.
Cut to: Multiple edits of Bush, Cheney, Powell, O'Reilly, Kristol speaking--their mouths moving in a horrific slow-motion, the images merging as the SOUND of the helicopter blades increases in VOLUME and merges with the SOUND of the volcano erupting.
Cut to: the young couple to be sacrificied to the volcano are now wearing military uniforms.
TEXT over picture, as CAMERA pushes into EXTREME CLOSE UP of the young man and woman, as they grimly face the CAMERA:
++++
Wonder who thought this up?
"5 years, 10 years, 20 years, 50 years Those are the various figures we’ve heard for the permanent war in Iraq."
I was just watching a DVD of a now defunct sci-fi television show called "Dark Angel". Not sure how long it's been off the air, but on this particular episode, copyright 2000, the Bad Guy du Jour was described as having been born in 1990, served in Iraq, dishonorably discharged.
Just an interesting coincidence...