Vets For Freedom: "Finish The Job"

Producer: Next Generation Advertising

Running Time: 00:30

Debut Date: 07/06/2008

Ad Buy: national cable, Michigan, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Cost: $1.5 million

Summary: Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan insist that the U.S. cannot give up the fight in those countries now.

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Script of "Finish The Job" (TV)

WILL BENNETT: I served in Iraq.

(Text on screen: Avon Park, FL)

JASON MESZAROS: I fought in Afghanistan.

(Text on screen: St. Michael, MN)

CHERE PEDERSON: My son is fighting in Iraq.

(Text on screen: Henderson, NV)

THREE VETERANS: We all fought.

KATE NORLEY: We’re still fighting.

(Text on screen: Iraq War Vet; Reisterstown, MD)

LEE CROGNALE: We’re still fighting and today we’re winning.

(Text on screen: Iraq War Vet; Powell, OH)

JASON MESZAROS: Casualties are at an all-time low.

(Text on screen: “U.S. Troop deaths… their lowest level” -- Reuters, 6/1/08)

ANNOUNCER [v/o]: Al Qaida in Iraq is decimated.

(Text on screen: “essentially defeated” -- the Washington Post, Saturday, May 31, 2008)

KATE NORLEY: The Iraqi army controls most of the country.

(Text on screen: “the Iraqi government and army have gained control” -- the Washington Post, Editorial, 6/1/08)

BEN HAYDEN: These are the facts.

(Text on screen: Iraq War Vet; Des Moines, IA)

JOSH ZISSLER: They can’t be ignored.

(Text on screen: Iraq War Vet; Dexter, MI)

JASON MESZAROS: We changed strategy in Iraq.

LEE CROGNALE: And the surge worked.

WILL BENNETT: Now that’s change we can believe in.

BEN HAYDEN: We need to finish the job.

JASON MESZAROS: We need to finish the job.

ANNOUNCER [v/o]: No matter who is president.

(Text on screen: Vets For Freedom; www.vetsforfreedom.org; Paid For By Vets For Freedom)

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