Morosky said he was for many years complacent about U.S. foreign policy.
In an email message a couple of days after the protest in D.C., he wrote : "It was somewhat a self-imposed denial of what my government was actually about. It is very difficult for a patriotic American to truly look at our government without the nationalistic lens. I guess things really jelled for me when I saw what our government was heading toward after 911."
While at the protest he said, "I woke up quite a bit , mostly because I couldn't understand what the rush to war was all about. I felt like the weapons inspectors were on the ground in Iraq. They were getting unfettered access to all of the sites. Hans Blix, the chief weapons inspector, was saying that there was nothing blocking them from getting into these sites. And as we know, nothing was ever found after the invasion. It looks like they (the weapons inspectors) were right.
"Meanwhile, four point something million Iraqis are refugees and, depending on who you listen to, anywhere from 100,000 to over a million Iraqis dead. Their economy is in shambles there and there's still no peace there and we're no safer than we were before 9-11. We've created more enemies with these wars and this continues today."
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