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Less Jobs, More Wars: What Is This "Iraq War" Charge On My Bill? [VIDEO]

Posted by Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films at 5:35 AM on February 8, 2008.


The Iraq War has cost the average American family over $16,000 since the war began.
Less Jobs, More Wars

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While the battle between Obama and Clinton continues, and may continue for a while, it is critically important we start getting out the message about McCain. We don't want the only story line to be about Democrats fighting.

And thanks to Joe Scarborough, we now have a brilliant McCain campaign slogan: Less Jobs. More Wars.

For two months, we've been trying to come up with a good name for our Issues '08 campaign, and there it is! Jason, Leda, Philip and Lissette jumped into action and put together these two fantastic short videos.

We need $100,000 immediately (like in the next week), so we can continue making these high impact videos, full-time, around the clock.

Can you chip in $50? We've got to start now. Make an investment here.

While we're using a little HUMOR in our opening effort, the war is deadly serious, the deaths to Americans and to Iraqis. We have seen and experienced the terrible pain and suffering. But our job right now is to reach millions of people who have erected emotional walls to any more painful news of death and destruction. So we went to the personal, the cost to each and everyone of us. And we did it by hacking the techniques of Madison Ave, a joke that gets the attention, and then makes the point.

We're very excited about this campaign, so excited that we wanted to get you involved now before we even have a proper website set up for it. Please post a comment on the blog with your ideas for future videos, a campaign song, a cartoon, and additional ways to get the word out.

Post your ideas here.

Let's keep working together to tell America about John McCain's vision for our country: Less jobs, and more wars. I've got a hunch Joe Scarborough is going to regret ever making that joke.

Robert Greenwald sits on the board of the Independent Media Institute, AlterNet's parent company

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Robert Greenwald is the director/producer of "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" and "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism."


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