MoveOn.Org’s Anti-McCain Ad

This week, the hard-left leaning MoveOn.Org published an advertisement attacking John McCain over a comment he made with regard to keeping soldiers in Iraq for the next 100 years. (For the purposes of accuracy, McCain’s comment was to the extent that he’d be open to keeping a military presence in the Middle East in a peaceful situation, similar to the relationship we currently have with several states in Europe, such as Germany and Poland, and with nations like Japan.)

The video can be found here: MoveOn.Org “Alex” video

The transcript:

A mother, holding a baby, holds him up and says:

“Hi, John McCain. This is Alex. And he’s my first. So far his talents include trying any new food and chasing after our dog. That, and making my heart pound every time I look at him. And so, John McCain, when you say you would stay in Iraq for 100 years, were you counting on Alex? Because if you were, you can’t have him.”

Coming from a military background, I find this ad particularly insulting. The US armed forces is a 100% volunteer force, and while an open draft is maintained under law, it has not been used since the end of the Vietnam war. Every man and woman currently serving does so by their own choice, as a willing adult volunteer. To imply that anything else would be the case is insulting to the troops, demeaning to their position, and ungrateful for the gift that these men and women have shed blood to give you – the right to put such an audacious advertisement out in the first place.

Note: MoveOn.Org is the same organization that took out a full page ad in the New York Times displaying the “General Betray Us” advertisement prior to the most recent hearing on the progress on the Iraq war. As a foot note to that, let me say this, for those who’ve not had the opportunity to be raised in the military ideals: know that there is no greater insult to a soldier than spewing that he or she betrayed his country, his family, and everything they fight for. None. It should be a mark of shame that MoveOn ever took this advertisement out, but apparently that’s not good enough for them.

May they be thankful that there are such brave men and women, who they chose to disparrage, who fight to protect their right to exist.

–J.L.