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Wilms

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7. I resemble that remark.

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Sat May 16, 2015, 04:09 PM

May 2015

That said, I thought I was merely not an idiot.

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People Who Opposed The Iraq War From The Beginning Are The Best Americans - HuffPo [View all] WillyT May 2015 OP

K&R! marym625 May 2015 #1

Luckily, we Democrats face a choice between a candidate who was one of the few who JDPriestly May 2015 #113

Although not a political leader swilton May 2015 #121

Anti-War To The Core cantbeserious May 2015 #2

Haha billionaire boodle can never buy morality and good judgment. ancianita May 2015 #3

How those to the left of the American political spectrum could support such transparently neverforget May 2015 #4

We were right and we are right now! Caretha May 2015 #53

damn right! neverforget May 2015 #64

Democrats are the left, now? ;-P MisterP May 2015 #72

Funny that so many of us knew it was based on lies right from the start. Enthusiast May 2015 #5

...but but but Caretha May 2015 #56

The media had a vested interest in it. LibDemAlways May 2015 #110

The run up to the war awoke_in_2003 May 2015 #118

I have a bit of that "question everything" I believe politically. Enthusiast May 2015 #131

Yes, we can handle it awoke_in_2003 May 2015 #134

ROLL CALL for the Jan 2003 protest in DC before it even started Cal Carpenter May 2015 #6

We beat the cold Oilwellian May 2015 #9

Ya know, I may have been at that one too.... Cal Carpenter May 2015 #18

Viggo Mortenson HelenWheels May 2015 #98

I froze my ass off that day in DC 90-percent May 2015 #14

Aw, nice pics! Cal Carpenter May 2015 #23

Great shots swilton May 2015 #128

Does San Francisco Count ??? WillyT May 2015 #36

I am somewhere in those pix dreamnightwind May 2015 #37

Me Too... When You Are In That Large Of A Crowd, Of People Who Care... It's Magical... WillyT May 2015 #38

I AM TOO!!! brett_jv May 2015 #82

I've marched with Cal Carpenter May 2015 #45

Agreed! I hope she's still kicking ass wherever she is now. arcane1 May 2015 #54

Didn't Tinoire sorta…tree herself when she left here Jackpine Radical May 2015 #57

Yep... Ex-Military Who Didn't Put Up With A Lot Of Crap... WillyT May 2015 #61

Damn right it counts!! arcane1 May 2015 #52

I Thought So Too... WillyT May 2015 #60

Heavens! I miss the Bay Area! NOLALady May 2015 #105

I remember seeing pics from all the rallies... awoke_in_2003 May 2015 #119

I marched in Los Angeles a few times. Met Martin Sheen at one of them. cui bono May 2015 #63

Massive jealousy here. Never met anyone famous while protesting in LA, but I did get to KingCharlemagne May 2015 #70

I met Ed Asner and his grandson at an antiwar action in Studio City pinboy3niner May 2015 #74

Beginning in April 2002 deutsey May 2015 #81

Same here swilton May 2015 #125

I was 21 then and remember the DC protest vividly. DemByDefault May 2015 #88

Welcome to DU, DbD! Cal Carpenter May 2015 #93

A dozen or so in Alamogordo, NM protested for months duhneece May 2015 #97

Heavens! It was freezing! NOLALady May 2015 #102

10/26/2002 DC a week before I got married underpants May 2015 #114

I was there. And at the larger one that spring on the National Mall. Faygo Kid May 2015 #116

I was there - present and accounted for swilton May 2015 #124

I don't care for 'the best Americans' framing either, WorseBeforeBetter May 2015 #130

I resemble that remark. Wilms May 2015 #7

So do a lot of us. calimary May 2015 #41

At the time a poll came out and I was stunned. Wilms May 2015 #59

Yup. Hand raised here. NRaleighLiberal May 2015 #8

I honestly thought they were putting me on, when people started saying "Bush is gonna invade Iraq" Warren DeMontague May 2015 #10

People seemed so scared that they would believe anything that W said Rosa Luxemburg May 2015 #51

It really brought out the worst in people Sobax May 2015 #66

My reaction was, "You've GOT to be shitting me!" Major Nikon May 2015 #84

If I said that about GLBT rights and DUers MaggieD May 2015 #11

And yet those of us who have been consistently right on both have a right to point it out. Warren DeMontague May 2015 #13

Why? MaggieD May 2015 #20

Nah. Warren DeMontague May 2015 #21

To each their own MaggieD May 2015 #25

I don't doubt it; but what's maddening is, you didn't really need much "inside info" to be against Warren DeMontague May 2015 #28

Agreed MaggieD May 2015 #30

If it was a genuine and honest mistake, that's one thing Sobax May 2015 #68

The possibility of learning can never be conflated with actually learning TheKentuckian May 2015 #76

Exactly, and as SOS she also was in favor of an even bigger escalation in Afghanistan Vattel May 2015 #85

Dude I don't see any inside info, just second hand infomation from your spouse with no proof Autumn May 2015 #108

It was a very good source MaggieD May 2015 #109

So your wife got this from Alans wife is what I understand ? Autumn May 2015 #120

Yes, hypothetically, we all could have been useless fucks. But that's not what happened. DisgustipatedinCA May 2015 #92

Could have been? MaggieD May 2015 #99

Yes, could have been, but weren't. DisgustipatedinCA May 2015 #100

Revisionist history on your part MaggieD May 2015 #101

No. Actually, I was here and posting in 2001. DisgustipatedinCA May 2015 #103

I'm not confused AT ALL MaggieD May 2015 #107

Thank you. I think I am too. bigwillq May 2015 #12

LOL !!! - This Brings Back A Memory... In Jr. College I Had A Soc/Psych Teacher Who Asked... WillyT May 2015 #43

Thank you! Dont call me Shirley May 2015 #15

I am not one of America's best, just an American. I was against the war. chknltl May 2015 #16

Now that you mention it kick. Octafish May 2015 #17

Thanks fish... WillyT May 2015 #39

When not just France and Germany but Canada and Mexico tell you it's a huge mistake... carolinayellowdog May 2015 #19

That reminds me Sobax May 2015 #69

You can haz the cheese but only Freedom Fries are allowed. Hoppy May 2015 #89

PROUD to say I was one of those tavernier May 2015 #22

But now when we oppose NSA, TPP and fracking, arctic drilling we are called leftists by whereisjustice May 2015 #24

Well, we certainly have the best bullshit detectors. navarth May 2015 #26

Condi and her mushroom cloud did it for me. WorseBeforeBetter May 2015 #127

I think we always knew that. sabrina 1 May 2015 #27

That's kind of simplistic, IMO MaggieD May 2015 #31

Why then should we elect one of those TM99 May 2015 #35

Because she can beat the republican candidate MaggieD May 2015 #106

Hillary showed incredibly bad judgment and poor research with her Iraq vote. JDPriestly May 2015 #115

She is an intelligent woman BlindTiresias May 2015 #123

Thank you. Agreed. JDPriestly May 2015 #133

No it is not that simple. TM99 May 2015 #135

Exactly right. People were threatened with being labeled a traitor if R B Garr May 2015 #91

+1,000 malaise May 2015 #29

Yes we took abuse for protesting katmondoo May 2015 #32

never bought the bushit...I remember the suspense BlancheSplanchnik May 2015 #33

That group would include me. n/t ColesCountyDem May 2015 #34

Dick Cheney's neocon principal deputy foreign policy adviser was immediately hired by SOS HRC. delrem May 2015 #40

I joined DU because of the Iraq War. I needed to talk to sane people & they were in short supply. U4ikLefty May 2015 #42

i was sadly right very early on about how horrible Bush would JI7 May 2015 #44

THANK you, "Supremes"! maddiemom May 2015 #47

Sandra Day later said the Bush/Gore decision was a mistake. Hoppy May 2015 #90

I've always felt "Good for her "instincts," They were certainly missing when she went maddiemom May 2015 #137

I knew an amazing variety of people at the start of the Iraq war. maddiemom May 2015 #46

Thanks for saying that swilton May 2015 #138

Of course we are. 99Forever May 2015 #48

K&R CharlotteVale May 2015 #49

Obviously. senseandsensibility May 2015 #50

I had bad feelings about the 2000 election when I saw the polls about a week before it. roamer65 May 2015 #55

While I take a measure of pride in having started protesting against KingCharlemagne May 2015 #58

Great Point... And As Jason States... WillyT May 2015 #62

A friend of mine is hooked on CNN as their main source of news... Spitfire of ATJ May 2015 #65

Some of us knew even before the 2003 invasion that the entire edifice of war . . FairWinds May 2015 #67

That's us!! Peregrine Took May 2015 #71

Kick !!! WillyT May 2015 #73

day one Demonaut May 2015 #75

It was wrong, it will always be wrong. Phlem May 2015 #77

If Hilary is the nominee for the Democratic Party, will you vote for her? akbacchus_BC May 2015 #78

It's been a long time coming..... MysticHuman May 2015 #79

crawford tx "ditch dweller"... BlueCollar May 2015 #80

That is so true. Chemisse May 2015 #83

"Prove that you don't have WMD by (date) or we invade. And we're removing the inspectors." Marr May 2015 #86

Mr. Marr . . FairWinds May 2015 #87

++++++++++ swilton May 2015 #129

Why, yes, we are! LiberalElite May 2015 #94

I will be honest here kacekwl May 2015 #95

Yes, President Obama is the best American. tridim May 2015 #96

I opposed and protested the war from before it broke out BainsBane May 2015 #104

I beg to disagree. Your early anti-war stance clearly makes you better than the KingCharlemagne May 2015 #112

I remember the day bush fredamae May 2015 #111

thank you kpete May 2015 #117

Sounds harsh BlindTiresias May 2015 #122

As someone who demonstrated on streets LWolf May 2015 #126

FEBRUARY 15, 2003 - Anybody from DU participate? DinahMoeHum May 2015 #132

I was there deutsey May 2015 #139

Thanks Everybody... WillyT May 2015 #136

K&R woo me with science May 2015 #140