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Originally Posted by Rochard
I am former military; I believe in supporting the president no matter what. When our president sends troops into harm's way we need to speak with one voice and back him 100%. We all saw what happened on 9/11 and it stunned me that we never had full support for what we did in Afghanistan, and we also never had full support in Iraq. Look what happened with out it.
Will everyone pull in the same direction? Hardly. It's just going to be business as usual with one side trying to beat the other.
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from a german point of view - which was very much criticized back then - there was support for the war in Afghanistan - even though we had already seen how the Russians failed against the Taliban (at that time supported with weapons from the US)
but the war against Iraq was not justified and built on lies - and thats when international support began to fall apart
thats what the german minister of foreign affairs said back then - right in the face of Rumsfeld
and these wars (started by Bush - or whoever used him as puppet) were what drove the US budget in the shitter - not a few % taxes more or less