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Originally posted by hagbard
Anyone ever think that if we had the internet in 1941 we woudlnt have been able to win the war?
There would be a bunch of people pissed that we took apart the japs at Midway. Any reports on most of the pacific fighting where we could lose 10k people in one battle would instantly spark a call to retreat.
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One important difference: Iraq didn't attack us. If they had, there would be very little domestic opposition to this war.
In war, whoever leaves their own country and crosses the border into another country to kill those people who live there in their homes are the hostile aggressors. In this conflict, we are the bad guys. Don't let rooting for your hometeam bias you. Just replace 'America' and 'Iraq' with fictitious country names and then re-read the story.
The bottom line is: America now has hundreds of thousands of enemys it didn't have 4 years ago.
It only took a couple dozen people to pull off 9/11. Now we've multipled the number of people who believe America is an imperialistic enemy by 1000%; turned a small gang of thugs into a global army. All they see everyday is us bombing their homes and blowing up their children, patrolling / gunning down people in the street, and they're not going to embrace our presidents excuses or justifications they way americans (sitting safely in comfort watching it on TV) give him a free pass because they've already picked a side.
Whoever wins on Nov 2nd, I'm afraid the invasion of Iraq has created enough hatred among so many that we're in for a generation of retribution/terrorism from those Iraqi's who lost loved ones. But an endorsement of the war from the american people (by re-electing Bush) will certainly make it worse. The whole world is waiting to find out if this is just a rogue administration, or if the american people themselves are responsible.