Duelling Videos on Iraq

A group calling themselves Freedoms Watch, composed of prominent Bush supporters, is running ads in the districts of vulnerable GOP Senators and Representatives, urging the public to call the group's switchboard and tell their legislators to "vote against surrender." The ads are powerful, with Iraq vets and family members of the fallen passionately defending the war, including a woman who lost both an uncle in 9/11 and a spouse in Iraq :



However, what happens if you call that number to OPPOSE the war? Nothing doing, as demonstrated in this counter-video by Americans United for Change:



The group VoteVets isn't going to let the challenge go unanswered. They are preparing to run TV ads of their own, urging Americans to put "country ahead of party" and oppose the war:



I think the ads on both sides are effective. The Freedom Watch effort may be just enough to help keep wavering Republican legislators from abandoning the president on continuing the war -- who knows? However, as frustrating as that outcome would be for war opponents like myself, I don't see how these kinds of commercials could ever turn the tide of national public opinion that runs so strongly against the war, and this continuing focus on the war will further erode GOP prospects as we move into 2008. The end to all of this madness in Iraq is coming, sooner or later, one way or another.