Almost 20 years after he sent me to Iraq, I disrupted George W. Bush’s speech tonight. I tried to read a list of names, mostly of Iraqis killed, as well as my friends who became anti-war activists after Iraq who then died of suicide or other war wounds. (They ripped up my list)
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This man has every reason to feel outraged. His life and the lives of millions of others have been harmed or destroyed by a colossal war machine that Bush helped build and perpetuate. Bush telling the protestor to “behave yourself” is beyond ironic.
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Marianne, weren’t you just pushing for the US to stay in Afghanistan? Maybe sit this one out
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My life’s work is not nullified by one emotionally reactive tweet.

Sep 21, 2021 · 1:31 AM UTC

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