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 Stone Shoots Ad Supporting U.S. Troop WithdrawalPosted on May 4, 2007
Director Oliver Stone has announced the winning entry, chosen by voting members of MoveOn.org, from a series of videotaped interviews with Iraq war veterans and their families. Stone has cut the interview with former infantry Sgt. John Bruhns into a 30-second TV spot, ending with a voice-over by Vietnam vet Ron Kovic saying: “Support our troops. Bring them home.” The ad began its weeklong run on CNN on Thursday.
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By cann4ing, May 6, 2007 at 4:58 pm Link to this comment
comment #68469 by kevin99999. Don’t get too excited. CNN hasn’t abandoned the military-industrial complex. It’s a paid-for ad. Money is money. If Bush gets his way, and starts nuking Iran, CNN will be right there, ready to display the carnage as if it were the light show at Disneyland, probably with a banner at the bottom reading “Target Iran”—just as it did in both Gulf Wars I and II. That’s mili-tainment!
Report thisBy chuck i, May 6, 2007 at 3:44 pm Link to this comment
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We lost 11 US GI’s Sunday 5/6/07. lost-in-space (bush) & darth vader (cheney) have bloodshed on their hands daily & they don’t recognize it!? They are on another planet. Impeach them now & withdraw our troops now.
Report thisBy DemRealist, May 6, 2007 at 9:57 am Link to this comment
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Mr. Stone has taken a lot of abuse from the extreme Right, but he has produced great masterpieces such as “Nixon”, “JFK”, and “Born on the Fourth of July” and his talent is monumental! The extreme Right says he doesn’t get his facts straight, but it is precisely because he DOES penetrate the walls erected around their crimes, arriving at the essential truth, that they despise him. I hope he realizes what a treasure he is to the American people.
Report thisBy kevin99999, May 6, 2007 at 8:42 am Link to this comment
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Since when did CNN, one of the bastion of right wing television, start accepting anti-war ad? Does it mean that CNN has stopped beating the drums of war. After all, it makes money when there is a war.
Report thisBy Hammo, May 5, 2007 at 10:17 am Link to this comment
Stone has contributed in many ways to moving America forward. Though he has been criticized for his views, many Americans respect and appreciate his efforts. Take a look at:
“New Oliver Stone movie about 9/11 brings Americans together” (American Chronicle)
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=12066
Report thisBy Hammo, May 5, 2007 at 10:09 am Link to this comment
As a Vietnam vet, Stone brings a good background to this topic. As many people have poined out, the similarities between the Vietnam War and the invasion and occupation of Iraq are worth looking at.
Many Americans under the age of about 50 do not really remember or understand the Vietnam War era, though they seem to be learning more. Info on this in:
“Revisiting the Vietnam War era: The draft, casualties and the Kent State shootings” (American Chronicle)
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=3514
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“Nam war and Raq war have differences, similarities” (American Chronicle)
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=3331
Report thisBy Dale Headley, May 5, 2007 at 9:09 am Link to this comment
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Just goes to show: Even Oliver Stone gets something right, now and then.
Report thisBy cann4ing, May 4, 2007 at 10:00 pm Link to this comment
Anyone who has served, in my case it was Vietnam, can immediately identify with what Sgt. Bruhns has to say. Every day Congress permits this to continue, people die. A vote to fund this war is a vote to betray men and women like Sgt. Bruhns.
Report thisBy vet240, May 4, 2007 at 4:29 pm Link to this comment
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John Bruhns is a veteran and a hero who is speaking for all veterans and active duty members. Even those who due to their career goals can’t or won’t speak up.
These men and women will fight and die for this country. The very least we can do for them is to make sure we don’t send them into a pointless war.
The current administration has misused their positions for personal gain at the cost of Americans like this man.
When are the American people going to realize what we have allowed our leaders to do to our service personnel?
How can you sleep nights while someone in your family, or your neighbors son, daughter, brother, sister, husband or wife is trying to stay alive in Iraq, knowing that they may spend 5-10 more years there with no possibility of a good out-come?!!
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