Posted on 03/09/2005 1:22:14 PM PST by billorites
A U.N. commercial depicts American girls playing in a soccer match. A girl steps on a landmine and there's a big explosion. Kids get blown apart. CNN and other networks don't want to air the ad. It closes with a tag line reading: "If there were landmines here, would you stand for them anywhere? Help the U.N. eradicate landmines everywhere."
The explosion appears to kill and injure some girls, sparking panic and chaos among parents and other children. Shrieks of horror are heard through much of the spot, and a father is shown cradling his daughter's lifeless body, moments after celebrating a goal she had scored.
You can view the ad here. (Here's a torrent file). Link and another Link
Oh I hate those bastards.
No, which is why we don't put them in the ground here. Those countries that have landmines in soccer fields should remove them. What does that have to do with us?
I bet some of that Oil For Food money could have gone a long way towards ridding the world of landmines.
How about a landmine under the seat of Kofi's commode - I'd watch that commercial.
The UN must have decided that the video of their "peacekeepers" raping women and children to death and in the Sudan was "too insensitive..."
It's a very effective commercial as propaganda, but it sure is in bad taste.
I'm sick of this Land Mine garbage. We use landmines to protect areas from attack and thus save lives. We don't just throw out mines for the fun of it. Our forces map the placement of landmines so they can be removed later, hell we've spent millions on smart landmines that can be armed or disarmed by remote and even blown up by remote when you want them gone.
that's right - people in glass houses shouldn't rape women and children.
My tagline continues to ring true...
CNN won't do it? Wow.
Why don't those UN weenies visit every dictator and warlord and ask them nicely to stop using land mines instead of using a sentimental commercial to try to make Americans feel guilty for something they're not responsible for?
The UN makes a commercial that shows little children getting killed, while UN "peacekeepers" in the Congo annd elsewhere kill little children and rape women.
The UN can go f*** itself.
Land mines are a defensive weapon. It's not like they are shot in the air to land in someone's field.
So I guess you could bury them in the goal box. ;->
"Funding for the State Department’s portion of the U.S. Humanitarian Mine Action Program [in 2004 was] $70 million a year, significantly more than any other single country."
AND: "The United States was one of the first countries to support humanitarian demining efforts back in 1988 when it funded the first such programs in Afghanistan. Since that time, the United States has consistently been one of the world’s strongest supporters of humanitarian mine action, providing nearly $800 million to 46 countries since 1993 when the United States Humanitarian Mine Action Program was formally established."
I dare them to show that commercial on TV in the US. The rage at the UN will be incredible.
The moral to the story is do not play Soccer in a mine field.
Obviously, the best thing to do at this point is ban soccer.
}:-)4
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