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Iraq Vet Tapped to Star in Oliver Stone's Anti-War Ad

April 26, 2007 4:10 PM

ABC News' Teddy Davis Reports: John Bruhns, an Army Sergeant stationed in Baghdad during the initial Iraq invasion, was selected by MoveOn.org members to star in an anti-Iraq war ad directed by Oliver Stone.

"It never seemed to me as if we were fighting al Qaeda, bin Laden, or the people who were responsible for attacking us on 9/11," said Bruhns in his youtube audition tape. "The mission was so confusing."

Bruhns joined House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Capitol Hill Thursday to urge President Bush not to veto the recently-passed Iraq war funding bill which includes a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal.

Bruhns' youtube video was one of 20 interviews with Iraq veterans and their family members which were considered for the Stone-directed ad in an on-line ballot.

Production of the John Bruhns ad is underway and will include a voice-over from Ron Kovic, the Vietnam vet who wrote the book "Born on the Fourth of July," on which the Academy Award-winning movie was based.

The ad will air on national cable next week.

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