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The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.

— Julian Assange

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I know the war in Iraq is controversial in the States, but for us in the Middle East it has made a great and significant impact.

— Ehud Olmert

World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.

— Jim Webb

The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.

— James Buchan

Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.

— Walter Dean Myers

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.

— John le Carre

I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam war and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.

— Richard Hell

✗Opposing Perspectives

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

— Richard Holbrooke

You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan.

— Lupe Fiasco

Vietnam was the defining event for my generation. It spilled over into all facets of American life - into music, into the pulpits, in churches of our country. It spilled over into the city streets, police forces. And even if you were born late in the generation, Vietnam was still part of your childhood.

— Tim O'Brien

Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.

— Michael Ignatieff