posted on April 21, 2007 06:46:23 AM new
Oliver Stone to Direct Anti-War TV Ad
Friday, April 20, 2007 4:30 PM EDT
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oliver Stone will direct a TV commercial as part of a campaign by MoveOn.org and VoteVets.org to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq.
The Oscar-winning director and Vietnam veteran will direct a 30-second spot that will air in about three weeks on national TV. It will feature a U.S. veteran of the Iraq war or the family of a veteran discussing the war's impact.
"They're giving it from their personal experience, either being on the ground or being at home waiting for their mother, father, husband to come home," MoveOn.org spokesman Alex Howe said Friday.
Stone, 60, is donating his services, Howe said.
"We have leaders in Washington who say they're `supporting our troops' — but the people who suffer most from their policies are the troops themselves," Stone said in a statement Thursday.
