You know, I opposed the war in Iraq, if not quite from the very beginning, at least by August of 2003. By that time I had learned that we’d been thoroughly lied to and that we were headed into a quagmire. I never claimed to be so prescient as to realize that our entire country had gone collectively insane. It took me a few months to come to grips with that reality.
The first thing I did was to apologize to my friends that had been appropriately skeptical. Then I dedicated my life to political opposition to the Bush regime. But, for all my opposition, I never advocated political violence. I merely wanted the American electorate to repudiate (at the ballot box) what had been done in their name. That has been accomplished.
I don’t know how similar this all is to the Vietnam War, but I never had any sympathy for people that resort to violent opposition.
