Four years ago this month I lost my job in radio. Radio broadcasting was a job I loved and the best paying gig I ever had.When my career ended I had just won an award and was really hitting my stride so to say I was bummed out would be a slight understatement. I lost my job because I was a vocal opponent of the war in Iraq and the Bush administration. You would think with the way things are going that I might have found my way back into broadcasting by now and if I lived in one of those Yankee liberal states it might have worked out that way but…it was not to be. The run up to the war and my dismissal, my subsequent law suit against Clear Channel and the mediated settlement to the lawsuit were so painful that I haven’t even been able to write about those experiences.

Last night I watched a television program that did an excellent job of explaining how our entire country could be rushed into an unnecessary war and describing the experience of being one of the few broadcasters that didn’t believe the hype about the weapons of mass destruction but found little support in those views, Bill Moyer’s program “Buying the War” on PBS. You can view the show on-line by clicking on

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html

It’s pretty long but well worth your time and effort. I find it interesting that some of the biggest cheerleaders for the war were too cowardly to appear on Moyer’s show and answer his questions. They feel more comfortable on Fox. Most of the commentators that predicted a quick victory in Iraq are still making the rounds of the talk shows and still making money on those dead wrong opinions. That’s just not right. But like my dad says “Life’s just not fair sometimes.”