was that Jesse Ventura doing the "operation truth" comercial on AAR?

[No2W2004]

The spot plays a the sound of a bunch of different weapons being set off, then the sound of the spin-meisters babbling about war.

[eleny]

1. If it's the one I heard earlier today - it's him

[Dr Fate]

2. Yes- he was interviewed on Ed Schultz about his new org.

He had some valid, nuts & bolts criticisms on the way the Bush admin is conducting the war in Iraq...

I suppose I should check their website!

[Dr Fate]

3. Very interesting- Link:

http://www.optruth.org/main.cfm

[No2W2004]

4. wow...the stories on the site are amazing

I keep thinking that it can't get worse, then I read about the shit going on there...not only to our troops, but to the Iraqis as well.

30 May – “We are still hurting for water, have no hot food (although Brigade has one hot meal daily), no showers or bathrooms or amenities. In headquarters, we are just making up as many excuses as we can think of for no mail, trying to beg borrow or steal water, oil and repair parts.

Ha! We are still on 2 MREs a day, with no hot meals in sight. It wouldn’t be right to keep convicts like this but its okay in the Rumsfeld Army.”

4 June – “114+ degree temperature today – Iraq heats up. Today was the day we were supposed to get some word on stop-loss, but nothing yet. Not even any new rumors about our return. We still have no parts to repair an ever-growing inventory of broken tanks, no bath & shower unit (although the Brigade Commander thinks we have one), no cold water or ice, little mail and little current news.

Our next mission, if it starts will be in this same general area of operations, but will have us spreading out even farther! … We tried to go to the town close to here today but someone had bought the ice before us and the commander got a flat tire and so we returned empty-handed.

We are still on 2 meals a day with water, while the brigade headquarters is eating 3 hot meals a day. I think it’s not right to keep these soldiers (and me) this way.”

18 June – “We are seeing reports about Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) tents and cyber-cafes in the rear, while we still need food & water, but, Yay!, the Bath & Shower unit showed up yesterday. I took all of their water and put it in trailers to drink and then put the operators on guard. They are shitting bricks. The division command sergeant major has visited us once since leaving the states. He was scared and aghast at how we lived, then ran away fast.

Today is a big visit from the brigade commander and some are running around, trying to change stuff to look good for their ‘senior rater.’ He didn’t rate me. I stood my people down. Maybe they will fire me."