It was March, 2003.
President Bush declared to the global media that Iraqi "president" Saddam Hussein and his horrid sons had 48 hours to leave the country or face invasion.
When American forces finally invaded the country, I joined with a few protesters on the UCI Bridge that joined the UC Campus with the student plaza.
Another passer-by had brought out candles and styrofoam cups for us.
We all lit our little candles.
We stood there on the bridge that night, mourning that another military conflict had broken out.
At the time, I supported the invasion of Iraq. I believed that Saddam Hussein was storing weapons of mass destruction, that he was an evil dictator who would stop at nothing to see his own mad ambitions taking over the Middle East.
Because I was convinced that Hussein was in league with Al-Qaeda, that he was instigating much of the terrorist trouble that was spilling onto American soil, I was glad to see the dictator facing his doom.
I believe that Assange's Wikileaks releases have confirmed that Hussein did indeed have the capabilities for manufacturing WMDs. Columnist and radio personality Larry Elder have confirmed these reports. The mainstream media, however, has no interest in reporting the foreign policy exploits of George W. Bush in anything but a negative light.