VoteVets.org is on the air with strong attack ads going against GOP candidates in Colorado and Maine. Can you imagine if funds came through to put this ad on nationally against McSame? Could he stand the ground noise and static? Here's the link to their website which also contains some of their other ads:
http://votevets.org/...
Adam Kokesh, in the above screenshot from CNN is a 26 year old Iraq War veteran from Santa Fe, NM who served in Fallujah in 2004 and saw the worst of the killing of civilians. He's a member of Iraq War Veterans Against the War, VoteVets and will vote Libertarian. He was an alternate delegate for Ron Paul legally in the GOP convention. Attendees were encouraged to hold signs but the GOP didn't like his and it was confiscated. Too late fellows, 40 million people saw it in prime time, more than any Democratic ad. Better, these four words will be remembered, just like his "You Can't Win an Occupation" flipside.
At the beginning of McCain's speech, Kokesh held up a sign reading, "McCain Votes Against Vets" and yelled, "Ask him why he votes against vets!" Kokesh was escorted out of the Excel Center by security, handcuffed by local police, and then briefly questioned while security debated whether or not the Secret Service would get involved. They did not. He was then escorted off the premises and allowed to go free.
I was actually expecting to get manhandled much sooner. [During the heckling], someone was grabbing my belt and pulling on me. And then someone pulled the sign out of my hands.
Well I wasn’t so much trying to interrupt the speech as make the point that McCain has a horrible voting record on veterans. What the Republican Party is doing with their take on the war in Iraq is spinning it in such a way that it’s about victory or defeat. But they can’t face up to the fact that you can’t win an occupation. In an occupation, everybody loses. What we’re calling for is an immediate withdrawal of all occupying forces in Iraq.
Kokesh has a website that has several links, none Democratic, but deserves our thanks for breaking the news to 40 million people. I find especially good on his website a breakdown of how 1,250,000 civilians have been killed in Iraq.
Even better (and I wish we could get it on DK) is a counter showing the amount spent so far in Iraq which is growing by a stunning $4000 per second.
http://kokesh.blogspot.com/
Whether you agree with all his politics or not, you gotta love this guy's courage.