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Wednesday, March 05, 2003
 
Here We Go

Drudge is reporting that President Bush will decide tonight whether to invade Iraq. I suspect that he is leaning pretty strongly toward doing it. On the eve of war, I decided to look through some of my pictures from Gulf War I. I think that there were a lot more protests last time around than this time. I think that is because most Americans are intelligent enough to see that something has to change and that a little push is needed to get things underway.

During the last war, I lived about 4 blocks from the White House. I spent a lot of time hanging around the protests. I don't recall protesting myself. I was there to see the funny outfits and to read the signs and to take pictures and to listen to the bands and to just sort of be near where the decisions were being made. Here are a few of the picures I took 12 years ago.

I took this photo just after the paper had been delivered. I was on my way back to the dorm after hanging out across from the White House.
It's War: January 17, 1991

The big thing used to be to sit around and bang on anything that made noise. They called this a punk percussion protest.
Bang a Gong, Get It On

This time around there's gonna be a hell of a lot more of these points of light.
It's time to light up the skies again.

This was my favorite photo I found. How prescient of Fugazi to realize that it would take two tries to get the job done. I'd bet they didn't think it would take 12 years and the President's son to get it done though.
What Fugazi knew then.

Click on the photos to see 'em nice and big.