I remember when U.S. government suddenly switched its focus to Iraq, after 9/11. It was a good example of 1st Amendment rights shifting during wartime. When I felt skeptical, and unclear on the connection between Al Qaeda and Iraq, I heard comments that made me hush my doubts. People were saying things like, "That's easy for you to say, cuz you didn't lose your entire family in 9/11." People with doubt or dissent were made out to be unpatriotic.
The film Buying the War was eye opening, because I wasn't aware that the entire world was duped. I figured there must be some link of truth amongst the decisions of the Bush administration. It made me think back to the days when I questioned the real purpose of the war, yet had faith that there must be reason. Now, I can't believe that high school and college kids knew 6 years ago what Buying the War is revealing to the whole world today, and our questions were hushed in light of patriotism. And now, 6 years later, thousands of Iraqi's have been killed. More U.S troops are dead than victims of 9/11.
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I agree with you - doesn't it seem unreal now looking back (knowing what we know now) at how easily most of us just took what we saw on the news as factual? I feel like I was really naive but somehow I thought that the president of the US should be someone with integrity that we could trust with running our country. We really had to learn the hard way didn't we? I just hope that whoever becomes our new president is able to find a way out of Iraq before we lose additional troops and kill more civilians in Iraq.
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