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No surprise here. When you suffer from excessive myopic views, you
will miss a lot of things..............


http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110007612

BY JAMES TARANTO 
Tuesday, November 29, 2005 3:53 p.m. EST 

Mistaken Identity
Yesterday we got an e-mail from an old friend who is a captain in the
U.S. Army. He writes:

I just got back from my third deployment from Iraq on Friday, and I
happened to be at the dentist and saw a completely offensive ad from
the idiots at MoveOn.org this morning. Anyway, it is a Bush-bashing ad
that pretends to be arguing for American soldiers families as they
will miss the holidays and it shows turkey and crying wives and blames
Bush for it all. Here is the crucial part of the ad that I would like
to bring to your attention. As they pretend to argue on my behalf,
they show a group of soldiers standing around a table in the Middle
East. 

Here's the scene to which our friend refers:

http://opinionjournal.com/best/112905moveon.jpg

"A hundred and fifty thousand American men and women are stuck in
Iraq," according to the narration that accompanies this scene. Our
friend (we've cleaned up a bit of his language for civilian
consumption) continues:

These are not your normal everyday U.S. soldiers though. If you look
at the frame they are actually British soldiers. One is in shorts (we
don't have shorts as a normal combat uniform) and the others are all
clearly wearing British pattern fatigues. So, my point is that these
[turkeys] pretend to argue on my behalf and bash the president in the
name of my crying wife, and they don't even know what an American
soldier looks like! Anyway, it really [ticked] me off.

The only thing that would have made this more galling is if the ad had
mentioned that the liberation of Iraq was "unilateral."