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Originally Posted by noodle
This is a bit random, but have you seen "lions for lambs". Its a new film!
Actually, its not so random, the reason i mention this cos your post reminded me of something, and its simply a question...
Do you think that the disapproval is low now because of things like "this war has lasted longer than the world war?", or "people are fed up and arn't happy with the number of americans dying", or "because USA is getting a negative image"?
I wonder, if a poll like this was made in the first couple of years of the war, how many people would have agreed? even though, america (in my opnion), had nothing to do in the middle east!
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At the beginning of the War most of America agreed with invading Iraq and we had a lot of world support. That was because we we working with misinformation. Saddam and Al Queda had nothing to do with each other. There were no Weapons of Mass Destruction, and at that time, Iraq was not harboring "terrorists". (None of the attackers on 9/11 were from Iraq, must mostly from our "ally" Saudi Arabia.)
As the truth began to come out, peoples trust in our leader at the most important time of all: wartime, began to waver. If we weren't there to prevent Iraq from attacking us, then why were we still there? I think Americans are frustrated at timelines that are never followed, the money-pit the war has turned into when millions of Americans can't afford insurance and schools are cutting programs, and the feeling that our soldiers are dying for no purpose. Though a reputation isn't as important as people's lives, I think many Americans are embarrassed by the actions of Bush and his administration, and I agree, we have no business acting like the world's police.