Surge protectors
The American Conservative
by Philip Weiss
10/08/07
Late this summer, just as American political armies were squaring off over the next, and likely last, act of President Bush’s Iraq War policy, a new pro-war group called Freedom’s Watch announced a $15-million ad buy over several months in key states. The first ads featured soldiers who had been maimed in Iraq but stood by the cause of a global war on terror. Political observers said they were targeted at the districts of Republican congressmen who were going wobbly on the war. The rollout was not auspicious. Ari Fleischer, a board member of Freedom’s Watch and the former White House spokesman, stumbled on MSNBC’s ‘Hardball’ when Mike Barnicle screened one of the ads and asked, ‘What’s that soldier’s name?’ ‘I don’t have that soldier’s name in front of me,’ Fleischer said. (His name is John Kriesel, and he lost both legs in Fallujah last year). The fact that Fleischer and another member of the group’s board had worked in the Bush White House seemed to support the view that that the group was an administration front...
http://www.amconmag.com/2007/2007_10_08/article1.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ari+Fleischer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+policy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Philip+Weiss
by Philip Weiss
10/08/07
Late this summer, just as American political armies were squaring off over the next, and likely last, act of President Bush’s Iraq War policy, a new pro-war group called Freedom’s Watch announced a $15-million ad buy over several months in key states. The first ads featured soldiers who had been maimed in Iraq but stood by the cause of a global war on terror. Political observers said they were targeted at the districts of Republican congressmen who were going wobbly on the war. The rollout was not auspicious. Ari Fleischer, a board member of Freedom’s Watch and the former White House spokesman, stumbled on MSNBC’s ‘Hardball’ when Mike Barnicle screened one of the ads and asked, ‘What’s that soldier’s name?’ ‘I don’t have that soldier’s name in front of me,’ Fleischer said. (His name is John Kriesel, and he lost both legs in Fallujah last year). The fact that Fleischer and another member of the group’s board had worked in the Bush White House seemed to support the view that that the group was an administration front...
http://www.amconmag.com/2007/2007_10_08/article1.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ari+Fleischer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+policy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Philip+Weiss
rudkla - 12. Okt, 17:41
