I think a lot of Americans support the "war" in Iraq

[CatWoman]

because, like they keep telling us to "get over it", they never got over Bush Sr. pulling out during the first Gulf War.

They had bigger hard ons for Saddam than * did.

They've been lusting for Saddam's blood for years.

[Doctor_J]

1. um,

Saddam has been in custody for a year, and was impotent for some number of years before that. The invasion of Iraq has as much to do with Saddam as it does with fighting terrorism.

[CatWoman]

2. I know that. You know that.

They know that.

But it doesn't/didn't matter.

[Doctor_J]

7. at som epoint I think someone in the media

will break ranks and start showing the "moonscapes" from Fallujah, or the piles of dead bodies of children, and then support will probably dip sharply.

At least I hope they do, since if they don't, * is going to provoke a war with someone who's not the pushover that Iraq is.

[Bouncy Ball]

3. I think they also get off on us killing

the "brown-skinned" people. I've actually heard quotes like Muslims are all godless scum and should be killed, every last one of them. Heck just go check out freeperville for confirmation of that.

[seafey]

29. This is the same thing I always hear too-

It's racism pure and simple. Kill all the brown people so we can use their oil in our giant rigs, I mean SUVs.

[The Flaming Red Head]

4. Bullshit

I don't know anyone who supports it, even military families who have loved ones in Iraq talk a lot about how wrong it is, they just won't go public with it for fear of retaliation.

[CatWoman]

6. Chickenshit

You're living in denial if you don't believe a certain amount of the poplace doesn't support this "war".

[The Flaming Red Head]

11. I listen when people talk to me. This war is not as popular as you think.

[karlrschneider]

10. I guess you haven't done any interviews here in Oklahoma...

there's a huge majority of assholes here who would tell you what they keep trying to tell me, that "we're getting even with the bastards for
9/11"...

:grr: is the best I can do when I think about it...

[The Flaming Red Head]

13. People (with good reason) are afraid to speak out in public

[Lone_Star_Dem]

14. I have seem a few of that type myself

The truly scary part is when I tell them Iraq had nothing to do with 911 most of them didn't know that fact. Of the ones that I explain it to I would say around half end up believing me, the other half are a lost cause. Just how ignorant and uninformed can a person be?

[BillZBubb]

16. Horseshit!

You must live in a cave somewhere. I'm in a red state and the war is still very popular among the morons here.

[CatWoman]

17. The blood lust is alarming

They are a vengeful, hard hearted bunch.

And they project that hatred so well.

[Kitka]

26. I’m in Illinois and it’s still bad here, too.

[Kitka]

25. Wow. Most people I know, other than my immediate family, support this war

Most people I work with believe we should expand our military assault on the middle east further, too. Many of my extended family are in the military and they all are gung ho on the war. I wish I didn’t know anyone that supported the war.

[Dr Fate]

5. Sure they do-so long as "those other people" are the ones fighting it.

That is why Bush will never be stupid enough to bring back the draft...

[charlie]

8. They love it

Selling a war is the easiest thing a Republican president can do. I've been the suspicious malcontent on the wrong side of popular opinion enough times to know that GeeDub would get whatever wars he wanted, especially after 911.

They also love Big Daddy Authoritarians, in spite of their self-serving claptrap about being Small Gummint Individualists. They swooned over Reagan and spooge everytime the Chimp tells them to go fuck themselves.

[JI7]

9. "we fight them there so we don't have to fight them here"

of course they don't care that it wasn't iraq or anyone from iraq that attacked us on 9/11. and then there are some(majority of bush voters) who DO think iraq was involved in 9/11.

some of them might admit to having questions about how things are going in iraq, but they still in the end come down to "well, at least we are fighting them over there and not here". it makes them feel good, like we are doing something. they are living their lives here and have no worries of their own(so far) when it comes to the war.

you should see the things some people say when debating on iraq. there is always a "but" involved also. "yeah, i don't like the deaths, BUT" "yeah i don't think Bush was entirely truthful BUT". many of them said if Kerry got into office he would have taken the troops out of iraq and then we would have had another 9/11 attack.

the media is a huge problem since they don't report the truth about how things are.

[fujiyama]

12. A stupid saying if there ever was one:

"we fight them there so we don't have to fight them here"

God I just hated that statement. It's callous, ridiculous, and makes not even the slightest bit of sense.

But it sold. And it sold awfully well. As the poster from OK said, a lot of people thought we were getting revenge for 9/11. It didn't matter if that went against the truth or that there were no connection to 9/11. Reminds me of that Darryl Wurly song (or maybe Toby Keith) where he says "I don't know the difference between Iraq and Iran.". Well, that goes without saying for most of the public.

This is a country of stupid people.

[CatWoman]

18. it's the stupidity that makes them most dangerous

[bluestateguy]

15. 18 months ago over 70% supported it, now it's about 50%

A drop of 20-25% public supoprt in a year and a half is a big shift of opinion. If this president continues to pursue this war or more wars of conquest his job approval numbers will be in the 30's by 2008. And if that's the case, then the Democrats will nominate a REAL anti-war candidate.

[KnowerOfLogic]

27. But it's been holding steady at about 50%, which suggests that

we are back to the old conservative/liberal divide. Conservatives are going to continue supporting this war for a long, long time.

[msongs]

19. sure they support it as long as SOMEONE ELSE does the dying :-( eom

[LynnTheDem]

20. US majority say Iraq invasion a mistake

And the US majority has been saying that for some time now.


But when you have 60% of bush supporters who still think Iraq had WMD, we've already found WMD in Iraq, that Iraq did 911, that the world supported bush's invasion, then you've got a lot of incredibly ignorant people who support the invasion.

Can't wait until most of them find out what a bunch of conned rubes they've been.

[CatWoman]

21. Bush supporters

they need to walk the walk.

I'd like to see a whole brigade composed entirely of them.

[LynnTheDem]

22. FIRST, show them REALITY and FACTS about all they're mistaken about

Make sure they learn the FACT that Iraq has NOT had ANY wmd since 1991, that Iraq had NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with the 911 attacks, that Iraq has NO ties to al Qaeda or any other international terrorist org, that the world DID NOT and DOES NOT support bush's invasion & occupation...and THEN line em up & send em to Iraq to die for bush's lies, KNOWING they are dying for bush's LIES.

:)

[buddhamama]

23. i don't think it is support

as much as resignation. I think that many Americans have come to feel a certain level of acceptance despite the LIES because of the troops -"ok now that we're there we have a job to complete" .

[Guarionex]

24. why can't all the "support the war" types go fight it

that would solve a lot of problems...including decreasing the trogodyte/Christian fascist population

The draft should only include Christian fascists who supported the war...only fair, no? Otherwise, you are a big hypocrite, arm-chair warrior...who should be butt-screwed repeatedly as your eternal damnation punishment.

[Uzybone]

28. Is this news? well maybe to some in the far left echo chamber

Most Americans still believe our troops are there protecting us. As long as they believe that, they will support this war.

[robbedvoter]

30. The "keep the darkies of my porch" war - we fight them there so that

we don't have to fight them here idiocy is believed by many. I still don't think it's a majority anymore. The price is starting to be seen by more and moore.