"thunder" wrote in message
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On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 12:07:43 +0000, NOYB wrote:


The country overwhelmingly supported war with Japan because of Pearl
Harbor. But there were plenty of doves who opposed sending our guys to
die
in Northern Africa and Europe to fight "Europe's war". After Kasserine
Pass, you can bet that there were a lot of American's questioning whether
we should be there at all.



Yeah, but, after Pearl Harbor, Hitler foolishly declared war on us. He
had hoped the Japanese would start another front with the Soviet Union.
They didn't. While it's true there were plenty of isolationists, Pearl
Harbor changed all that, and I would strongly suspect while Kasserine was
discouraging, Americans were still supportive of the war effort.



I'm sure they were. But I'm talking relative dropoff in approval.

According to Rasmussen, Bush's poll numbers are almost exactly where they
were pre-9/11 and only slightly lower than they were pre-election 2004.


Most Americans supported going into Iraq as well. But Americans are
fickle
and impatient. A little bad news goes a long way in shaking the resolve
of a good portion of our country.

To a degree, but I suspect the slow realization that it wasn't about WMD,
or bin Laden, or . . . plays a large part. When the cause is just, I
don't underestimate America's will, but to this day, no one in this
administration has come clean about the true reasons for this war.


A perpetual civil war might not be such a bad thing for American
security. Continuous internal conflict makes them very little threat to
other nations.

NOYB, even in the unlikely chance that a Civil War was contained inside
Iraq's borders, have you considered what it would do to the price of a
barrel of oil? Civil War means this administration has failed, and the
next administration will have to put the pieces back together. It also
means 2,000 young Americans have died in vain. That's unacceptable.

Instability in Iraq isn't going to affect the price of oil as long as some
semblance of stability remains in Saudi Arabia. I believe the true purpose
of our going into Iraq was to permanently station troops in the Middle East
on the borders of Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia...so that we didn't need to
leave our troops in Saudi Arabia.