An ad launching later this week takes notice of the war-monger words of Presidential hopeful, John McCain. Their spokesperson? A female veteran of the Iraq war.

It’s a stinger:

Transcript:

John McCain says it’s o.k. with him if the U.S. spent the next 1,000 years in Iraq.

That’s some commitment to the Iraqi people, Sen. McCain.

(picks up baby)

This is my little boy.

He was born a year after I came home from Iraq.

What kind of commitment are you making to him?

How about 1,000 years of affordable health care? or, 1,000 years of keeping America safe.

Can we afford that for my child Sen. McCain?

Or have you already promised to spend trillions in Baghdad?

Votevets.org’s website says their mission statement is to, “hold public officials accountable for their words and actions that impact America’s 21st century servicemembers; and fully support our men and women in uniform”.

And directly from the mouth of Votevets.org:

The ad features, for the first time, a female Iraq veteran and her small child. Rose Forrest served 12 months in Iraq, and gave birth to her little son, when she came home. In the ad, Rose challenges John McCain to tell the truth about what endless war means for her child, and all of our children. Senator McCain needs to give us some straight talk about how much endless war in Iraq is going to cost. We don’t have an endless pot of money, or an endless supply of troops and equipment.

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We’re airing this ad in the hopes that Senator McCain finally gets honest with the American people. We’re putting it out there so that the media and power-brokers start to ask the same questions. Endless war in Iraq means drastic sacrifices for Americans in their everyday lives, and in terms of our own security.

Is it appealing too much to the tenderness of sending females to the sandbox? Is Americas collective guilty conscious ready to face the reality of women fighting alongside men?

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