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Sympthsical

(8,925 posts)
9. I just edited in a Gallup graph
Sun Aug 15, 2021, 11:25 AM
Aug 2021

Americans largely haven't been nearly so reflective over time as they are now claiming they were.

I just hate bandwagon revisionism. It's all over the place this weekend.

So infuriating! Dr. Shepper Aug 2021 #1
In the end, only time. maxsolomon Aug 2021 #38
At the time, Afghanistan made a lot more sense than Iraq. But OCCUPYING a country is a mistake, Hoyt Aug 2021 #2
Yes I agree, most of the coalition countries Bev54 Aug 2021 #35
We all were for snowybirdie Aug 2021 #3
Yes, I was for it, or at least I wasn't against it. Haggard Celine Aug 2021 #14
Yeah I think many are confusing Iraq with Afghanistan. honest.abe Aug 2021 #4
nobodys confusing anything Blues Heron Aug 2021 #7
Anyone says they were against the war from the beginning. honest.abe Aug 2021 #10
Nobody's confusing the Iraq war with the Afghanistan war Blues Heron Aug 2021 #12
Did you see the link in my post. honest.abe Aug 2021 #16
Thats not confusion - those were anti war protests Blues Heron Aug 2021 #20
I was there.. the vast majority of protestors were about Iraq. honest.abe Aug 2021 #22
I think we'll just have to chalk this up to a Blues Heron Aug 2021 #23
LOL honest.abe Aug 2021 #24
LOL SmittyWerben Aug 2021 #31
Indeed. honest.abe Aug 2021 #33
Assertions rather than facts. LanternWaste Aug 2021 #73
We turned out in what numbers we could muster. Emrys Aug 2021 #52
I know there were some people against the war initially but the vast majority were not. honest.abe Aug 2021 #60
I think you're reaching with this guff about "flushing out bin Laden" Emrys Aug 2021 #65
He was flushed out of Afghanistan months after the invasion. That is a fact not guff. honest.abe Aug 2021 #66
As a justification for what was done by the Bush regime/PNAC, it IS guff. Emrys Aug 2021 #71
My only argument for justification is for the initial invasion of Afghanistan. honest.abe Aug 2021 #74
You talked about "confusion" earlier. Emrys Aug 2021 #78
You are confused about my comments. honest.abe Aug 2021 #79
I don't think so. Emrys Aug 2021 #80
Let me explain. honest.abe Aug 2021 #81
That sense of urgency didn't stretch to tackling the country that actually supplied Emrys Aug 2021 #83
That's another topic that isnt directly relevant to the issue being discussed. honest.abe Aug 2021 #84
It's actually the very root of the issue. n/t Emrys Aug 2021 #85
Nope. Many of us remembered the 9-year quagmire that was the Soviet-Afghan War. GoCubsGo Aug 2021 #41
So no need to go after Bin laden? honest.abe Aug 2021 #43
Where did I say that? GoCubsGo Aug 2021 #45
The question being discussed is were you against the war from the beginning. honest.abe Aug 2021 #46
Yes, I know what the question was. GoCubsGo Aug 2021 #47
Perhaps you are right but at the time most Americans wanted to get him and get him quickly. honest.abe Aug 2021 #61
Most Americans would have been fine if he was gotten the way they got him. GoCubsGo Aug 2021 #62
What "lies"?? honest.abe Aug 2021 #63
They lied about knowing what they were doing there. GoCubsGo Aug 2021 #67
That had nothing to do with convincing the American people of the justification for the war. honest.abe Aug 2021 #68
This message was self-deleted by its author GoCubsGo Aug 2021 #70
I was responding to your mistaken assertions. honest.abe Aug 2021 #72
9/11 had happened and revenge had to be taken. Steelrolled Aug 2021 #51
There were multiple choices. GoCubsGo Aug 2021 #53
There might have been other military options. Steelrolled Aug 2021 #55
It' wasn't the only choice. Just the most politically expedient one. GoCubsGo Aug 2021 #56
Yeah, the predictions were dire, that the US would be bogged down in Steelrolled Aug 2021 #58
WTF Skittles Aug 2021 #88
OBL and Al-Qaeda were targeted from the start. Steelrolled Aug 2021 #89
seemed to me like the focus shifted off of Bin Laden very quickly Skittles Aug 2021 #90
Yeah, the fact that we couldn't find and kill OBL was Steelrolled Aug 2021 #92
NOT ME Skittles Aug 2021 #87
9/11 was Saudi's. That's who we should have bombed SoonerPride Aug 2021 #5
That's so true. It was Saudi Arabia that financed 9/11 and Al Qaeda. Bin Laden's dad BComplex Aug 2021 #15
There were some of us opposed to the Afghanistan invasion UpInArms Aug 2021 #17
👆 This. nt crickets Aug 2021 #49
Ten years after we invaded Afghanistan. CentralMass Aug 2021 #30
Should have gone in, gotten the job done Tomconroy Aug 2021 #6
Well, to be fair, most did not know we'd be there for 20 years. MoonRiver Aug 2021 #8
I just edited in a Gallup graph Sympthsical Aug 2021 #9
And it's especially bad among Repugs. MoonRiver Aug 2021 #21
It will be the same with Trump Chainfire Aug 2021 #11
I supported the war with the Taliban, I did not support the war with Iraq, diverting troops and Shellback Squid Aug 2021 #13
+1 Mad_Machine76 Aug 2021 #28
I wanted this strictly as a police action going after a criminal. DinahMoeHum Aug 2021 #18
punishing the Taliban stopdiggin Aug 2021 #19
20 years is so long a time that people treestar Aug 2021 #25
This week I learned UnderThisLaw Aug 2021 #26
I supported it Mad_Machine76 Aug 2021 #27
Our involvement in the Soviet-Afghan war and it's aftermath lead to the power vacuum that allowed CentralMass Aug 2021 #32
I don't disagree Mad_Machine76 Aug 2021 #36
I remember Delphinus Aug 2021 #29
Compare the number of people claiming to have been at Woodstock or the Selma March MichMan Aug 2021 #34
I begrudgingly supported going after Bin Laden but if I remember right, we sent in chowder66 Aug 2021 #37
Thanks for this post. maxsolomon Aug 2021 #39
+1 honest.abe Aug 2021 #40
Kind of like the Woodstock Festival. BeckyDem Aug 2021 #42
I supported the initial attacks on the Taliban bluecollar2 Aug 2021 #44
Glad to be "six percenter." David__77 Aug 2021 #48
Thank you for reminding everyone. Steelrolled Aug 2021 #50
15 of the hijackers were Saudi, 2 from the UAR, 1 from Lebanon and 1 from Egypt. panader0 Aug 2021 #54
Well said Sunsky Aug 2021 #59
I don't know about everyone Sunsky Aug 2021 #57
necessary evil manicdem Aug 2021 #64
I may have supported it at first AZProgressive Aug 2021 #69
When we went in, I thought Bettie Aug 2021 #75
The entire affair is an excellent example of mission creep. BannonsLiver Aug 2021 #76
I have been against almost everything we have done since 1964. marie999 Aug 2021 #77
I well remember Barbara Lee being the lone vote in Congress against authorization of military force betsuni Aug 2021 #82
I was NOT among the 90% who rallied around Dubya Skittles Aug 2021 #86
Hundreds of thousands of us demonstrated against it in San Francisco lunatica Aug 2021 #91
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