Walter Hinteler wrote:I'd like to recommend the reading of a recently published (by Rand Corporation, sponsored by the United Staes Army) research:
American Public Support for U.S. Military Operations from Mogadishu to Baghdad
"The support of the American public is widely held to be a critical prerequisite for undertaking military action abroad. This monograph describes American public opinion toward wars and other large military operations over the last decade, to delineate the sources of support and opposition for each war or operation, to identify the principal fault lines in support, and to illuminate those factors that are consistent predictors of support for and opposition to military operations."
Full document (PDF; 2.6 MB)
Summary (PDF; 0.1 MB)
I'd assume the point you're trying to make is that I'm wrong in claiming that demokkkrats don't support the war on terror since the report cites something like 80% support for the operation in Afthanistan and 70% for the operation in Iraq.
In real life however, that's about what somebody like myself would expect. Thirty-three percent is a sort of a natural number in the universe like pi or e or the Avagadro number from chemistry; it's roughly the percentage of a$$holes in any industrialized nation, i.e. losers whose minds are sufficiently clouded by ideology for them to consistently vote for some sort of a totally rogue political party. That was the percentage which Hitler used to get in German elections, and it's the percentage which demokkkrats would get in a fair election in America now.
Even demokkkrats have claimed that the mainstream media in this country gave them fifteen percent of the vote in the 2004 election, i.e. that in an election with no media or with an unbiased media, the Bush/Kerry election would have been 70/30 or 65/35. The dems basically got their own hard core of losers (33%) plus another 15% (gullible) kicked in by the media.
For the year and a half prior to the 2004 election it seemed as if every time I walked in front of a television set or was in a dentist's office or a barber shop or any such place where one has occasion to pick up a magazine, and picked up a magazine and looked at it, there it was again, the screaming message of the American mainstream media:
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OH MY GOD, THAT GEORGE W. BUSH IS A FOOL, AND WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE ON ACCOUNT OF WHAT A FOOL THAT GEORGE W. BUSH IS!!!!!
http://www.calblog.com/archives/004109.html
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Newsweek's Evan Thomas had once boasted ...
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110005571
"There's one other base here, the media. Let's talk a little media bias here. The media, I think, wants Kerry to win and I think they're going to portray Kerry and Edwards I'm talking about the establishment media, not Fox. They're going to portray Kerry and Edwards as being young and dynamic and optimistic and there's going to be this glow about them, collective glow, the two of them, that's going to be worth maybe 15 points."