Donors Funding $15 Million Pro-War Ad Campaign: A Who's Who Of Fmr Bush Ambassadors

MSNBC   |  Mark Murray   |   August 23, 2007 10:51 AM


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The donors who are financing the new multi-million-dollar TV ad campaign arguing against a withdrawal from Iraq include a Who's Who of former Bush Administration ambassadors (to plum assignments like France, Italy, and Malta); a least one of Bush's original Pioneers; the man ranked by Forbes (in 2006) as the third-richest American; and, of course, former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer.

Brad Blakeman, the president of Freedom's Watch, which is running these ads, released the following names as donors to his group. Blakeman told NBC that the rest of the donors are choosing to be anonymous. Freedom's Watch is a 501(c)4 organization, which can collect unlimited contributions and doesn't have to disclose its donors.

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Have Brad Blakeman and Ari Fleischer served in our

military?

No.

But they are "working" by raising $15 million to

promote neocon lies about Bush's Iraq Surge instead of

raising $15 million for our wounded vets. Why?

Answer: Because our wounded vets can no longer help them
add to BushCo's war profits.

Ari and Blakeman are WAR CRIMINALS!

NO REPUBLICAN BUSH/LOYALISTS WILL BE ELECTED IN 2008!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:36 PM on 08/24/2007

When we get past KATRINA Anniversary, Fletcher we're coming at you on 9/11....gird your f*ckin LOINS!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:43 PM on 08/24/2007
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Bush and Lady Laura will be in New Orleans next week to

"celebrate" the city's rebuilding. This will be Bushie's

15th trip to the area. What a great leader!

Now if he would only give LA a fair percentage of

the taxes from the Gulf of Mexico's oil rigs, just like

Mississippi gets, the state and city could handle

the rebuilding.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:49 PM on 08/24/2007

Fletcher wants to USE an amputee Vet (who he didn't EVEN know his name) to try and feature 9/11 lying connection to Iraq,(NEVER EXISTED),

FINE

lets LOOK at 9/11 not with misty eyed flag draped Bush version, lets look unflinchingly at Bush's "Obama determined to attack USA," lets look at 200 hours of UNTRANSLATED arabic tapes, as they dumped over 50 arabic linguists, who were GAY.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:39 PM on 08/24/2007

sorry OSAMA above not OBAMA...just too angry at ARI to put my thoughts down

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:46 PM on 08/24/2007

9/11 anniversary should highlight 3 things:

First Bush LIED on the pile of rubble right out his photo-op BULLHORN...those folks who knocked the towers down NEVER heard sh*t from Bush and 2 years ago he admitted they closed the special forces looking for Bin Laden, and rationalized Bin Laden wasn't THAT big a concern.

Second lets take a REAL hard look at Giuliani's hand in putting out safe air statements, as rescue workers breathed abspestoes 12hrs/day.Lets also look REAL hard at the crook Kerick using the apartment set aside for workers to rest being used as his personal brothel.

Third lets look at the G*D DAMN unsifted victims body parts being used to fill NYC potholes, and the TOTAL failure to do anything with ground zero but leave it a gaping festering WOUND!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:32 PM on 08/24/2007
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Ari Flushman was on MSNBC's Morning Joe show yesterday promoting this group of Bush War Lovers.

Joe could not have been more approving. He gave Ari
almost 20 minutes to promote his neocon lies.

The only thing which could have stopped Joe would have been if his two sons were in the Army.

Joe, why haven't your sons enlisted yet?

And why haven't these neocon Bush Lovers given
their $15 million to our wounded vets?

Answer: Because they can't make any money/war profits off of our wounded soliders.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:20 AM on 08/24/2007

Yup . . . wonder which of them is responsible for not delivering the equipment the army needs so desperately.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:11 AM on 08/24/2007

Ari Fletcher put your money where your mouth is,,,enlist in the ARMY Infantry...chickensh*t!

I hyope the BLATANT LIE of linking 9/11 to Iraq BLOWS UP in Cheney/Fletcher's face...FINALLY!

btw learn the amputee vet's NAME you sleazy huckster Fletcher!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:31 AM on 08/24/2007

Ari Fleischer on Hardball, didn't know the name of the amputee in the commercial. If it had been me, I would have know his name, address, birthday, social security number, fathers name, dogs name, where his dog shat the last time, favorite color, etc, etc, etc... I think that everyone should contact their Republican representatives and Senators and let them know how disgraceful this campaign is. I saw the commercial with the burning World Trade Center...disgusting! It is nothing but propaganda.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:04 PM on 08/23/2007

yes it is nothing more than blantant disgusting propaganda but a totally corrupt regime.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:35 AM on 08/24/2007
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Hey don't blame them, after all they all just did put another "Support our Troops" sticker on their cars and raised another flag on their front lawn! What patriots, "please give us more time, so we can secure our oil".

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:55 PM on 08/23/2007
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Send all these assholes to Baghdad and let them go on patrol with the troops they claim to support. Damn Anonymous Cowards!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:42 PM on 08/23/2007

On another topic, the exploitation
of Cindy Sheehan by the "libruls" was
is apparently a bone of contention.


To see this ad, with a double amputee
telling me that we must stay in Iraq
or his legs were lost for nothing
is the most disgusting piece of film
I have ever seen.
Except for the tape of JFK's head exploding.


Using this wounded, damaged man for this
is beyond the pale.

These pro-war folks are monsters.
How they sleep at night is beyond me.


Oh, and by the way, those legs were lost


for NOTHING!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:18 PM on 08/23/2007

It certainly is "Swift Boater II." And I also question just how gullible the American public is. I saw one of these ads. Certainly, a double amputee young vet earns your sympathy. But that still doesn't justify an unjust war. We must GET OUT OF IRAQ. Of course, with all the money making that's going on, I don't know when that will be. This is a crime against humanity. Ours and the Iraqi people's.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:49 PM on 08/23/2007

Swift Boater II, funded by Bush cronies.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:19 PM on 08/23/2007

Methinks this is good ol' CYA in action.

The big question is whether or not the American public is stupid enough to swallow this again.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:42 AM on 08/23/2007
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Judging from the past...probably.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:07 PM on 08/23/2007

that is the saddest bit of all . . . they will buy it . . . what do they use for brains or morals?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:33 AM on 08/24/2007

I wonder, How many are making money off this war? How many of the donors are true chicken-hawks? How many are profiting from the price of oil going from 17.00 to 70.00 dollars a barrel for the last 5 years?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:12 AM on 08/23/2007

Ari and the rest of the chicken hawk corp are a bunch of cowards who push for others to fight and die while they hide under their desk waving the flag claiming to being a patriot. They run these ads linking 9-11 with Iraq, They think that the American people are stupid and they think this will make everyone rally around King George and Darth Cheneys oil war. Here is their contact link feel free to send them a message. http://freedomswatch.org/contact.aspx

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:46 PM on 08/23/2007

I suspect they are all making lots of money out of this war . . . and expect to make millions more . . . these guys must be the fascist elite to the chimp and the big dick . . . I honestly do not understand how these people can have so little regard for human life that they have completely sold any pretext of humanity to an ideology that instigates, creates and wages wars for no other purpose than for corporate greed while pretending the be a political philosophy . . . these guys should be sent to extermination camps . . .

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:09 AM on 08/24/2007
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