This + "if you don't like it, you don't love this country", for months and months and months
https://twitter.com/EliPlaskett/status/1417926814920413186
When Bush won in 2004 I remember thinking "we're going to be at war for the rest of my life" and well
My parents were staunchly against the war (they also opposed Vietnam, the bombings in Libya in '86, and the Gulf War, and the War in Afghanistan) and our household felt at the time like a very strange island in a sea of people whom I did not understand.
I strongly believe that the Iraq War, and how folks who opposed it were viewed by like, a wide swath of America, drove many of us kind of insane.
As a side note I had a friend who served at the Battle of Basra in '03. He was older than everyone else in our German class and everyone kept asking him questions about what the war was like. He just kept saying that while he was serving in Iraq he was either bored or terrified.
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