Chime in if you remember how the "press" in this country pushed for war

[ljm2002]

13. I will never forget it...

...they were acting like f***ing cheerleaders for the invasion.

It was early in my tenure at a new job where nearly everyone was conservative. I think I was one of two, out of 35 or so people, who were liberals.

I tried to tell one of my coworkers, Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11. Didn't matter to him. I told him that the "shock and awe" bombing would kill civilians in Baghdad. His response was, Saddam Hussein should not use civilians as a human shield. When I pointed out to him that this was f***ing Baghdad, a huge city, and a lot of people simply live there, he said then they need to leave. I told him I'd been around during the Vietnam debacle, and that once you loose the dogs of war, you have NO idea what forces you will unleash. He just shrugged.

Well here we are, a disastrous war that lasted 10 long years, and cost us trillions. I wonder if he's watching Hubris now. I wonder if he thinks he was had. I doubt it.

It's a crime how our media manipulates people into seeing issues in a certain way. Certainly there were many of us who knew better, who demonstrated in the streets to make our views known. For all the good it did.