At first  it became just an outlet for me to oppose what I saw in the mainstream media  which was the lead up to the Iraq war I remember in 2002  in December  I was shooting something at the White House - I forget what it was - and I saw all the press core getting ready to outfit themselves for the war  and I thought  "What is happening? Could this really be unfolding?" And then when the war began in March 2003 and the press coverage was very much a kind of Hollywood extravaganza -- or so it appeared on television -- I felt lied to and I felt like I needed to find some way to personally counter this and to engage in this war beyond just watching it on television