What were you doing in March 2003? That was when President Bush gave Saddam Hussain an ultimatum: either they had to leave Iraq or the United State would invade. And sure enough, Saddam Hussain didn't leave and the United Sates did invade.
With all that going on, perhaps it is understandable that many of us didn't notice that the nuclear power of North Korea successfully attacked the United States with a missile. Good thing the US government had its priorities straight, invading a country that posed no possible threat to the US while ignoring a country that actually did attack the US. And thank heaven for the mass media, that reported on this attack so thoroughly.
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."