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A 30 SECOND VIDEO ON THE REAL REASON FOR THE IRAQ WAR .
Produced in 2004. Still relevant, More so, today.
Here's the YouTube link to go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0YYeELfP0g
2010 We're still in Iraq for all the wrong reasons supporting a country with more money to spare than America. And still losing the lives of our soldiers. The only beneficiaries are Big oil and defense contractors.
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Write brilliantly about the war and your words are but fading echoes. But capture war in a picture and a single image can confer iconic immortality, telling the truth to generations to follow.
Life Magazine told our story at Pearl Harbor, Iwo Jima, Dachau, Inchon and Tet.
Now comes a simple, somber epitaph of America's Iraq misadventure, distilled into a 30 second video by Stan Cotton on YouTube.com.
Cotton, an ad man known for going against the grain of conventional advertising wisdom, usually it works for clients. Now he is the client on his own mission.
"Laying it on the line shocks people," Cotton said. "When I put my "Iraq War Reality Check" video on www.joinfoil.org, I knew that I had a message that was powerful without being heavy-handed. It plants the seed of an idea and leaves the viewer to nurture it. I would hope this message starts conversations in the classroom and over the dinner table."
The video opens with words from a Commander in Chief to sailors assembled on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. "Major combat operations have ended," he intones. The carrier deck gives way to Arlington National Cemetery under autumn skies and before us are row upon row of tombstones with new tombstones popping up to extend the row. A saxophone and direful piano mourn the loss of American lives as an automobile odometer clicks off the dead, and more simple white military tombstones keep appearing and marching across the screen.
Then we notice something not quite right about those new tombstones:
Each comes with its own little gas nozzle & hose.
"When is enough...Enough?" a voice over asks.
When we get the picture and the public protests the loss of lives and the use of the public's money to make the rich richer.
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