Mr. Bush, when are you going to apologize?

As the country’s leaders remember the thousands of Americans who lost their lives to terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, activists and social media users remind the public of the years of devastation those attacks were then used to justify. 

Fittingly as an outgrowth of that discussion, the name of former President George Bush was trending on Sunday along with video of a veteran’s demand of an apology from this country’s former leader. That video was of anti-war activist and Iraq War veteran Mike Prysner. He interrupted Bush during a speaking engagement last September. “You lied about weapons of mass destruction! You lied about connections to 9/11! You lied about Iraq being a threat,” Prysner continued. “You sent me to Iraq in 2003! My friends are dead!" 

Despite Rep. Barbara Lee standing alone as the only member of Congress to oppose the war in Afghanistan, Bush, with the support of the U.S. Congress, invaded Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2001. Two years later, Bush justified war in Iraq with claims that the country possessed weapons of mass destruction and was supporting al-Qaeda, the very extremist group that produced the 19 terrorists who hijacked four commercial planes and crashed two of them into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center 21 years ago....