New online ad attacks Kyl over 2 war-funding votes
2006-09-27
Source: Arizona Star
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rss feedA controversial, and powerful, campaign ad accusing U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl of voting against funding for body armor for soldiers in Iraq was released on the Internet video site YouTube Tuesday.
A Kyl spokesman branded the spot, which currently can only be seen on the Internet, as false and misleading.
The ad features Pete Granato, an Iraqi Operation Freedom veteran with the U.S. Army Reserves. Granato holds an AK-47, which he says is the "rifle of choice for terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Granato fires the weapon into two sets of military vests on mannequins - one a flak jacket, which Granato says is "the protection we were given when we were deployed to Iraq" and the other modern body-armor.
While the bullets are stopped by the body armor, they rip through the flak jacket. "The difference is life or death," Granato says. The commercial ends with Granato saying Kyl voted against providing the troops with body armor.
The ad was funded by VoteVets.org, a political action committee made up of veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is one of several versions the group has made targeting Republican senators running for re-election this year.
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