@LexiGirl@JoshuaHolland Media barely touched it. Buried in in repetitive war mongering segments. There was ONE photograph of a protest in Spain where more than 1 million people attended. Spain said it was a million. The US press said “Several thousand…”
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Australian media also described Australians who protested against the Iraq war as "the Mob" (Charles Wooley interviewing PM John Howard). Dunno about the UK media, but Oz media were all in on the war-mongering.
What's a little disheartening now is how many of the talking heads who were cheerleaders for this war are still around, especially in the Murdoch/Fox News media.
The likes of Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson (then on CNN), Wolf Blitzer, were all big proponents. Likewise, Andrew Bolt in Australia.
Most have not acknowledged the long-term consequences of invading Iraq and Afghanistan, or their role in it.
Countless people were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. And for what?
Iran ended up being the big winner of regime change in Iraq. It would not be anywhere near as powerful as it is today if not for the Iraq war.
The emergence of Isis was a direct consequence of the Iraq invasion.
Meanwhile, the Taliban is still in power in Afghanistan.
And once it became apparent how big a screw-up it was, Dubya pushed the Palestinian Authority for elections in Gaza to get "a quick win" in the Middle East.
Hamas won those elections. We can see how well that worked out in the long term.
Those long-term consequences still haven't fully played out yet.
All this to secure access to oil, at a time when we already knew that burning fossil fuels causes more frequent and severe bushfires, heatwaves, droughts, floods, and forest fires.
And the most disheartening thing has been the lack of any reckoning or serious institutional introspection over it all.
@3dogcouch@JoshuaHolland I felt the same way. My sorrow started as soon as 9/11 triggered the irrational bloodlust and gave sway to the morons who thought the US should and could reshape the world with its military.
@JoshuaHolland The February 15 2003 protest in Rome supposedly involved three million people. All for nothing. Peacefully parading doesn't get us very far.
We went to a protest at the UN. Bush was speaking inside and the streets were filled with signs all over that area of Manhattan.
The police put up cages near the UN and we had to stay in them if we were near the grounds. If you were in the crowd further North or West there were no cages.
It was a freezing cold day. Estimated 200k spread out on many streets.
NY Earth Day in 1970 had 20M No Nukes in 1982 had 1 M.
@JoshuaHolland but of course it was before the days of social media and cell phone videos. It was the era of aol, alternet , Netscape, blogs and maybe MySpace I guess
@JoshuaHolland I clearly remember going on a march in Melbourne against Iraq. It was curious that tens of thousand of citizens knew there were no WMD's and our elected politicians didn't.
@JoshuaHolland The protest I attended in January 2003 in Boston was at the time the biggest one in that city since Vietnam War.
I attended countless more, before and after Bush's shock and awe attack on Iraq. In February I marched for peace with hundreds of thousands in New York City, while millions did the same worldwide.
I cannot recall how many protests I was a part of. I do remember that mainstream press consistently downplayed them, often grossly misrepresenting the size of events.
@JoshuaHolland …as predicted...I rarely go to aggregator sites because of this. But Google's US news section is making NO mention of it at all, I scrolled through 37 topics before giving up.
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