UNICEF-Belgium is raising money to provide relief for kids forced into war in Africa.

Apparently, the ad company wanted more graphic violence... a headless Smurf, a Smurf without an arm, etc.

Luckily, UNICEF-Belgium isn't using this to make statements about the American war machine, but just you wait... those Lefties in Germany, England, and in our home states will borrow the imagery to spook kids about the "evils of corporate greed", "war for oil", and other such nonsense.

http://www.globeinvestor.com/servlet/ArticleNews/story/RTGAM/20041216/ingrambloga

http://www.woi-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3964905&nav=1LFb

http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?r405535036&f=7500000373112
(Registration required)

http://www.ocala.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051012/NEWS/210120313/1004/news04

http://www.news4jax.com/irresistible/5089651/detail.html?rss=jax&psp=entertainment
(With link to video of a CNN news story with Anderson Cooper)

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/10/11/213159.php

I posted about it here:Given the graphic nature of this "PSA", I wonder if UNICEF bothered to produce accompanying cartoons featuring "Osama bin Azrael" dragging Smurfette into a rape room, or "Gargamel" Hussein putting Papa Smurf feet-first into a chipper shredder, or baby smurf donning a suicide bomb vest? Or even Happy Smurf crashing an airliner into a skyscraper. After all, what's good for the goose should certainly be good for the gander..

To be fair, UNICEF is not going after the Iraq War.

This is a campaign against the kidnapping and enslavement of young children who are forced into fighting in Africa.