Vets getting political

Another one of those releases I received just in time for Memorial Day, this one questions presumptive Democrat candidate Barack Obama’s foreign policy declaration about meeting with our enemies unconditionally.

(Last Friday) Vets for Freedom Political Action launched its first internet advertisement, which asks Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) why he is willing to meet, unconditionally, with foreign dictators, but has shown no interest in meeting with Commanders on the Ground and has not visited Iraq in over 2 years.

The 60-second ad… features retired Iraq war veteran Sergeant Garrett Anderson. Sergeant Anderson served in Iraq with the Illinois Army National Guard, and was severely wounded when his patrol was hit by an IED.

The ad highlights the unfortunate fact that:

1) Senator Obama has never met, one-on-one, with the Commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus.

2) Senator Obama has not visited Iraq, and our brave troops on the ground, in over two years. His last visit to Iraq was January 2006, and he was there for less than two days.

3) On April 8, when two-dozen Illinois veterans went to his office for a meeting, Senator Obama was unwilling to meet with them. He was in the office, just wouldn’t come out. Sergeant Anderson was a member of that group.

This is the first in a series of ads from Vets for Freedom PAC.

In my continuing effort to figure out the new version of WordPress I now have, I’m going to try to embed the ad here. But if it doesn’t work, you can still check out the Vets for Freedom website.

And the group is getting political, as I noticed they’ve endorsed a quintet of Congressional candidates across the country who served in the military recently. Most notable among them is Duncan D. Hunter, the son of the Presidential candidate of the same name and hopeful to succeed his father in Congress when the elder Hunter retires after this term. I wonder if they’ll throw their support behind Naval reservist Andy Harris in our local race as well.

Author: Michael

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