@westernmom,
westernmom;34975 wrote:Unsupportive populace??? Where were you in 2001 and 2002 when everyone was clamoring for justice and most wanted Saddam's head?
Excuse me.....the 9/11 terrorists were mostly from Saudi Arabia...it was Bush and Co. that used bits and pieces of intel, mixed it up in a pot, added innuendo and fear mongering, and in his 2002 State of the Union address, pronounced that Saddam had been shopping in Niger for yellow cake uranium, and was putting together a nuke..he then pulled out the U.N. inspectors looking for WMD, and proceeded to war. Nobody had been concerned about Saddam until then...he had been contained...but Bush was determined to get even/ assert his shaky manhood/ distract from a messy domestic agenda/ name your poison....he lied , and we gave him the benefit of the doubt, based on "doctored" documentation, and Congress , erroneously, gave him the go ahead. You, obviously don't see anything wrong with that picture. Well, the majority of folk, near and far, "do"....so, let me rephrase...."Duped populace".
It's the liberal media hype that has promoted the unpopularity of this war. It's the networks not covering the positive things that are going on behind the scenes.
If there were a liberal media hype, then why was Rumsfeld allowed to conduct an inadequate number of troops, ill-equipped, with no end game insight or prepared for, without media scutiny? I was saying to myself, why is the media giving the administration "a pass"? Why are the tough questions not being asked? Why are the casualties and pictures of the war being obstructed, unlike Vietnam? It's because the media was bought out by this administration, and refrained from broadcasting negative imagery and news...yellow journalism, if you will.
Otherwise calls for the end of the war would have occurred much sooner, and everybody knows that. If it were any liberal media hype, Colin Powell wouldn't be hanging his head in shame ( where is he?), and being down low...he would be able proudly proclaim that he had reservations concerning the war...but he, the media, the Republicans, the conservative movement, the Religious Right were all complicit in this unholy war....and now that the truth has come out, people are mad...their loved ones have died for unjust causes...and when you feel that your sacrifice has been in vain, nothing or no one can convince you otherwise. It's over, and if it ain't over, it soon will be. Bank that.