September 20, 2005

Cindy's Ad Campaign

Cindy Sheehan will be showing up in Washington, D.C. Thursday to promote an anti-war ad campaign:

The print ads, with the tag line, "They Lied, They Died" will run in 14 major newspapers covering several congressional districts across the United States. The TV ad will begin airing on Washington, DC cable and nationwide on CNN this Thursday with a combined buy of over $1 million.

One of the groups behind the campaign is Win Without War. On their web site they state:

We share the commitment to countering terrorism and weapons proliferation, but oppose the doctrine of unilateral military preemption. We believe that international cooperation and enforceable international law provide the greatest security for the United States and the world, and the greatest opportunity for people to live in free, healthy, and just societies.

Be wary of anyone using the unilateral canard. Just because the U.N. (i.e. Germany, France, and Russia) didn't give the U.S. (and Great Britain, and Spain, and the Netherlands, etc.) permission to liberate Iraq doesn't mean it was "unilateral." In the next sentence WWW mentions "enforceable international law," but fails to admit one of the reasons stated for going to war was to enforce U.N. resolutions:

Whereas United Nations Security Council Resolution 678 (1990) authorizes the use of all necessary means to enforce United Nations Security Council Resolution 660 (1990) and subsequent relevant resolutions and to compel Iraq to cease certain activities that threaten international peace and security, including the development of weapons of mass destruction and refusal or obstruction of United Nations weapons inspections in violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 (1991), repression of its civilian population in violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 688 (1991), and threatening its neighbors or United Nations operations in Iraq in violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 949 (1994);

Whereas in the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution (Public Law 102-1), Congress has authorized the President `to use United States Armed Forces pursuant to United Nations Security Council Resolution 678 (1990) in order to achieve implementation of Security Council Resolution 660, 661, 662, 664, 665, 666, 667, 669, 670, 674, and 677';

Whereas in December 1991, Congress expressed its sense that it `supports the use of all necessary means to achieve the goals of United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 as being consistent with the Authorization of Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution (Public Law 102-1),' that Iraq's repression of its civilian population violates United Nations Security Council Resolution 688 and `constitutes a continuing threat to the peace, security, and stability of the Persian Gulf region,' and that Congress, `supports the use of all necessary means to achieve the goals of United Nations Security Council Resolution 688'

The groups behind WWW are your typical Leftists: Greenpeace, MoveOn, NAACP, Rainbow/Push Coalition. It includes TrueMajority, the Ben Cohen organization that funded Sheehan's publicity stunt in Crawford, TX.

"Cindy Sheehan, Gold Star Mothers, Win Without War Launch TV, Newspaper Ads"