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Originally Posted by opendoor
Is that really any different than any other countries? 80% of Americans supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq when it happened, even though that eventually resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. It was only after the major combat ended and the US continued to take causalities during the insurgency that support dropped.
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I would say that first there were demonstrations in the US and UK against the Iraq war, and unlike Russia the Iraq war came against the backdrop of 9/11 where most Americans were angry, grieving a harrowing attack on their soil and wanted to have revenge against someone anyone for the film of poor souls throwing themselves of the WTC to escape the fires, I would give you that the rage was misdirected by the Neo Cons but without 9/11 there wouldn't have been a war, opposition to the war was always present in the US even though the war at first seemed to be a huge success.