Very!
Just like the uproar over this recent Gallup poll that indicates a great deal of what I would can, honest displeasure with the occupation in Iraq.
I tried to put myself in their place and I found that my view, based on my own nationalistic tendencies would have been similar had I been asked that same question, phrased in the same way.
People here in this country and on this site as well as just not thinking.
The fact that Iraqi's resent the occupation, and are impatient to get control of their own lives and country is not at all unusual.
The fact that they are not jumping up and down with glee and have dissident voices intermixed with fear, loathing and confusion after decades of abuse and terror is not unusual.
What is unusual is that after 9/11, Americans are forgetting why we are pursuing the war on terror and why it is so important that we play this as an AWAY GAME as opposed to a HOMECOMMING!
If our economy crashes as a result of another of these terrorist attacks, it may never recover and the United States of America will be but a 200 year footnote in the history books.
How much is that protection worth? Can you put a number on it? Is 500 lives too much? a thousand? Ten Thousand!!!!!!(we lost over 50,000 in Vietnam)
The answer is that there is no limit to what we must do in order to protect our very existence and our place in history. There is no sacrifice that is too great in this situation, this is way more important and justifiable than Vietnam and the sooner people figure that out and learn to live with it, the better for all of us.
If it hadn't been a lib president we would have stopped the second day of the invasion. The media would have done what they did in Viet Nam and are now trying to do in Iraq.
We must not let the media define our president or our mission in Iraq.