[Dr. Frank fan]

Americans’ support for the initial invasion of Iraq has risen somewhat

Have we really reached this surreal point? Where we're polling Americans on their "support" for a historical event?

The initial invasion of Iraq occurred in 2003. It is nonsensical to ask people "do you support the initial invasion of Iraq". How can you "support", or not, a historical event that already occurred? More to the point, who cares?

Hey Freepers, do you support the Trojan War?

Do you?

What about now? Do you support it now? Did you change your mind about whether you support the Trojan War since the last time I asked?

Truly surreal.

[Stallone]

I supported the invasion of Iraq initially, because the media seemed happy about the progress. Remember the embedded media and ‘shock and awe’?

Later, with the torture photos and mounting troop losses, when the media told me to, I started to tell people it was a big mistake.

When the elections in Iraq took place, the media seem impressed with the fingers dipped in purple ink, so I was too. I once again supported the invasion, once the media assured me it was ok to do so.

In the runup to the November 2006 elections, it was obvious to me the media was again not happy with the invasion, and I felt the same. Not happy.

I am prepared, should the war start going better and the media therefore changing its position yet again, to say the invasion was a good thing.

Hope you can follow all this.

Call it nuance.

My screen name at KOS and DU is Mary’s Pet.

[Blind Eye Jones]

I support the Trojan War only because Ulysses had to go through his turmoils and we can read about it through Homer and find out what Hades is really like so that Britney Spears doesn’t have to be capture by Pluto and suffer a worst fate than what her mother has in store for her... or know that Paris Hilton wasn’t really was captured by the Cyclopes, which is a fake story with phony pictures printed in every rag at the supermarket. But the real reason is Lohan’s drug addiction to monkey testicles which justifies almost everything except Edward’s hair ball augury piece that Johnny Depp found beneath the statute of Hercules. So, yeah, I’m all for it... what was the question?

[Condor51]

***** Hey Freepers, do you support the Trojan War? Do you? What about now? Do you support it now? *****

Well, I used to, but not now.

After all, the whole thing was about that Trojan guy stealing that Greek guy's chick - Helen. Fighting for your woman is one thing but sheesh, how stoo-pid can you get - total war???.

So no, I don't support it 'now', they should have settled the matter in Divorce Court.

[WOSG]

“The initial invasion of Iraq occurred in 2003. It is nonsensical to ask people “do you support the initial invasion of Iraq”. How can you “support”, or not, a historical event that already occurred? More to the point, who cares?”

The liberals care, in order to rhetorically wave the bloody shirt in future elections. It’s a Marxist thing - it’s particularly important for the liberals to own history, so they can control it in the future.

As for me, I think the biggest mistake made in our lifetimes was the Presidency of Jimmy Carter.