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November 30, 2005

MoveOn.org’s Pants Problem

Posted by Eric at 11:43 am. Filed under: Politics, War / Terrorism

If you haven’t seen the kerfuffle over MoveOn.org’s use of British soldiers in their American Troops Stuck in Iraq ad, and the subsequent attempt to photoshop pants on the poor chap, check it out here, here.

A US Army Captain responds:

These are not your normal everyday U.S. soldiers though. If you look at the frame they are actually British soldiers. One is in shorts (we don’t have shorts as a normal combat uniform) and the others are all clearly wearing British pattern fatigues. So, my point is that these [turkeys] pretend to argue on my behalf and bash the president in the name of my crying wife, and they don’t even know what an American soldier looks like! Anyway, it really [ticked] me off.

And Generation Why appreciated the timing of the “Where are the Republicans” voiceover in the ad.

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  1. MoveOn.org pulls anti-war ad

    Probably over the embarassing fact that they apparently think everyone else is so stupid that they wouldn’t catch that the pictures of the soldiers they have in the ad on their webpage that has been altered to make them look like American soldie…

    Trackback by Sister Toldjah — November 30, 2005 @ 8:48 pm

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