Reflecting on the start of the Iraq War 20 years later. I cannot overstate how appallingly one-sided the news coverage was in the US during the buildup to the invasion.

@jensorensen

Agreed. Dubya and the GOP crashed this country into a ditch on a lie. And they destroyed quite a few careers to get their precious forever war.

General Shinseki
The Chix
Phil Donahue
Valerie Plame/Ambassador Wilson

That's not even counting the tens of thousands of americans forever disabled for serving their country in the wrong place for the wrong reason through no fault of theirs. Nor does it count the ones who never came home at all.

This. This is why the GQP can never, ever be trusted until every single one of the criminals who got so many people killed on a fucking lie are long dead and gone, and their influence forgotten.