Iraq War Reality Check Video Released on YouTube

Where have all the flowers gone? A more poignant, powerful and brutually honest image Americans will ever see that dramatizes the Iraq War in a memorable 30 second video.

(PRWEB) September 21, 2007 -- Write brilliantly about the war and your words are but fading echoes. But capture war in a picture and a single image can confer iconic immortality, telling the truth to generations to follow.

Life Magazine told our story at Pearl Harbor, Iwo Jima, Dachau, Inchon and Tet.

Now comes a simple, somber epitaph of America's Iraq misadventure, distilled into a 30 second video by Stan Cotton on YouTube.com.

Cotton, an ad man known for going against the grain of conventional advertising wisdom, usually works for clients. Now he is the client on his own mission.

"Laying it on the line shocks people," Cotton said. "When I put my "Iraq War Reality Check" video on www.joinfoil.org, I knew that I had a message that was powerful without being heavy-handed. It plants the seed of an idea and leaves the viewer to nurture it. I would hope this message starts conversations in the classroom and over the dinner table."

The video opens with words from a Commander in Chief to sailors assembled on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. "Major combat operations have ended," he intones. The carrier deck gives way to Arlington National Cemetery under autumn skies and before us are row upon row of tombstones with new tombstones popping up to extend the row. A saxophone and dirgeful piano mourn the loss of American lives as an automobile odometer clicks off the dead, and more simple white military tombstones keep appearing and marching across the screen.

Then we notice something not quite right about those new tombstones:

Each comes with its own little gas nozzle & hose.

"When is enough...Enough?" a voiceover asks.

When we get the picture.

Here's the link to Go to You Tube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMxUs_Q5nxw

or view on www.joinfoil.org

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