The War Photo No One Would Publish

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8. And Dear God, IronGate, how hard we fought to keep you home.

Damn. We marched, protested, held rallies, wrote letters, wrote postcards, signed petitions, sent emails, made phone calls, sent letters-to-the-editor, blogged, lobbied, begged, and NONE of us was heard. MILLIONS protested that damn war. On EVERY continent, as I recall - including Antarctica. Nobody paid attention. Nobody gave our side any face time on TV or radio, and very rarely in print. NOBODY listened. NOBODY had a seat for us at the table where all of this was being discussed and planned. On NO Sunday talk shows. NO front pages. NOTHING. We were deep-freeze buried, silenced, ignored, laughed at, shunned, scorned, called names, accused of all kinds of shit, our patriotism questioned, our love of our country questioned, we were lambasted as traitors and America-haters and enemy sympathizers and Saddam lovers.

But we sure tried.

And in the end WE were the ones who were correct, who called it accurately, who resisted the bullshit and refused to buy in or compromise or concede.