I was against the war from the start. Back then, the media slandered the anti-war movement on a daily basis. Here in America, the media claims to be objective, but they aren't. Fox News Channel's slogan is "Real Journalism - Fair and Balanced" but they spend all their time sucking up to President Bush and the Republicans. Back in 2003, focus grouping (which never works by the way and is a total waste of money for corporations) convinced the other news channels CNN and MSNBC to try and out-do Rupert Murdoch and his biased news coverage.
In the last year, public opinion has really shifted and the media has gone with them (except Fox). People are almost universally against the war these days and the President's party is projected to lose the election in a landslide next Tuesday. People now realize that Iraq was never a threat to anybody and had none of the Weapons of Mass Deception that the President used to mislead us into war.
Honestly, I supported the Afghanistan War because the truth is that Osama bin Forgotten's terrorists did attack the Towers on September 11th, 2001, regardless of what the conspiracy theories (to convince people to stop believing those theories, you have to prove them wrong, even though nobody's ever proven them correct so the burden of proof should be on the conspiracy theorist) say. I believe we should go to war with Iran because Iran has long been known to be the number 1 sponsor of terrorism in the world.
Iraq isn't the first war America ever entered without being attacked. The Revolutionary War was a very much justified war because the British Parliament was trying to financially harm our country for a decade before it and British soldiers massacred civilians in Boston in 1770. The British started that one by attacking us at Lexington and Concord. Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and 230 years later, we're still not up to those standards. The next 2 wars in American history, against some pirates in Africa (1st decade of 1800s) and Britain (War of 1812) were started by attacks on our navy. We fought numerous aggressive wars against the Native Americans during the 1800s. Ironically, in the 1700s, the Native Americans were referred to as Americans and what is today an American was then a Colonist. Then some Americans moved into Mexico (Texas was the specific region of Mexico) and we fought the Mexican War to take all the land from Texas to California from Mexico and paid them an insufficient amount. Of course, we later paid about the same amount to Mexico to get a small strip of land in Arizona so that we could build a railroad on it. After that, the Southern states exercised their constitutional right to secede (I'm actually a Northerner, but I recognize that the South was well within their rights to secede and still would be today), but the Southern Army attacked us in a military base on their territory and started the Civil War. Then our media fraudulently drove us into war with Spain after a ship exploded off the coast of Cuba (through the fault of the crew) and we took Spain's remaining possessions. We were dragged into World War I by a fraudulent telegram sent by the British and the moron we had in the White House at that time (Wilson; besides creating a crappy peace league that failed, he was responsible for the IRS, Prohibition, the rise of the Mafia and KKK, and began attacks on civil liberties). We were attacked in World War II by Japan (Japan's slow typists in their embassy delivered the notice about the attack late, so it ended up being a sneak attack, to the Japanese leadership's dismay, as they merely wanted to attack us to get us to negotiate peace with them, instead of instigating a war that ended with a nuclear attack). However, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq I were all interventions by our military as have been every war since WWII for us except Afghanistan.
I don't think the Media has been very fair at least here in the US, because they've been very favorable of this war for the majority of it and Fox remains favorable. If the Democrats ever retake the presidency, they will certainly return to being the vicious attack dogs that they were during the Clinton Administration, instead of being the gentle lap dogs that they are at the moment, even though choosing between the Democrats and Republicans is like choosing between Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse.
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) where we don't hear of a death of one or the other.
