$1 Million TV Ad Buy Will Begin to Run on Friday in Battleground States Featuring Mother of US Soldier Killed in Iraq

MoveOn PAC sent an appeal to MoveOn.org's 2.8 million members today for contributions to help put a 60-second ad on television in battleground states. The ad features Cindy Sheehan, the mother of Spc. Casey Sheehan who died in battle on April 4th of this year.

Ms. Sheehan addresses her statement to President Bush, describing her grief for her son and faulting the President for deceptively linking the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center with Saddam Hussein in order to persuade Americans of the need to rush to war in Iraq.

The ad was one of several originally produced by RealVoices.org, a political action committee created by parents and close relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq.

60-Second TV Ad Transcript:

MoveOn PAC
TV :60
'Mother'
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VIDEO
WHITE TEXT ON BLACK CARD: 'A MESSAGE TO GEORGE W. BUSH'. FADE TO BLACK. FADE UP ON CINDY SHEEHAN, MOTHER OF ARMY SPC. CASEY SHEEHAN, KILLED IN SADR CITY, IRAQ - APRIL 4, 2004. CINDY SPEAKS INTO THE CAMERA.

AUDIO
CINDY SHEEHAN: 'My son was brave, he didn't want to go to war. But he joined the Army, and he volunteered to go on the mission that killed him because his buddies needed to be rescued. He died in his best friend's arms in Iraq.

VIDEO
CUT TO IMAGE OF CASEY IN FRONT OF AN AMERICAN FLAG. THEN CUT BACK TO CINDY.

AUDIO
CINDY SHEEHAN: I imagined it would hurt if one of my kids was killed but I never thought it would hurt this bad. Especially someone so honest and brave as Casey, my son, when you haven't been honest with us, Mr. Bush. "