Recommended reading: Five years later

Curt Guyette of The Metro Times in Detroit writes "The Left was Right."

They take no satisfaction in knowing that they were right in opposing this
ill-fated Iraq war from the outset. All they want is for people to listen to
them now.

And what they have to say is this: If we are ever going to get all of our
troops out, it will be because of pressure that starts at the grassroots level
and works its way up to the top of the political chain - not the other way
around.

When the Bush administration was spewing its lies and the mainstream media
marched behind in lockstep, trumpeting myths about weapons of mass destruction
and fantasies about invading troops being greeted with tossed bouquets, members
of the peace movement were trying to warn us not to make what became a mistake
of epic proportions.

But America didn’t listen. The drumbeat for war was too loud, drowning out
the voices of opposition. Shoved to the margins, they were all but invisible.
When not being ignored by mainstream media they were on the receiving end of
ridicule from squawking chicken hawks.