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Originally posted by fastpat
Support was never there in the first place. Anytime you have less than 90% of the population behind a government activity, you will have problems, increasing in scope and frequency, making continuing that activity more and more difficult, no matter what it is.
In this particular event, the support was never more than 70-71% in the most optimistic polls...
War was a bad idea from day one.
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I'm not certain you're correct about that 70% early on - I thought it was at or very close to 90% during the time of the State of The Union speech directly after 9/11. At that time, retribution was still very high on everyone's mind, and we were all fairly convinced that Iraq was a threat.
Yes, the war was a bad idea, but that was realized too late in the process toward the war itself.