19 March 14

Eleven years ago today I stood up for peace, protesting what would soon become America's Second War in Iraq. While we held our signs and sang peace songs in downtown Lexington, military forces were already on their way to deliver "shock and awe" to Baghdad in an immoral and unprovoked invasion, which was being promoted to the public as a response to threats about weapons of mass destruction. Those weapons never existed, and all of the justifications offered for the invasion proved to be outright lies and subterfuge. The real purpose for the Second War in Iraq was to initiate "regime change" that would preserve American access to oil and support the corporations profiting from that industry.