“Freedom is not a mistake, and worth the price”
The video is in itself a response to various comments by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, such as those that appeared in a July 14, 2008, editorial in the New York Times, where Obama wrote, “I opposed the war in Iraq before it began, and would end it as president. I believed it was a grave mistake to allow ourselves to be distracted from the fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban by invading a country that posed no imminent threat and had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks
As Cook walks away from the camera at the end of the video, revealing his missing leg, the underlying meaning of his assertion, “Freedom is always worth the price,” becomes clear.
Joe’s father, Bob Cook, told WND the story of how his son paid that price.
