My very first posts on Free Republic were me getting hammered because I thought it was stupid to open a second front in the War on Terror before Afghanistan had been resolved. Not to mention invading a “non-fundamentalist” Muslim nation that had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11.
I was attacked relentlessly and called every name in the book here on this site.
That being said, the moment we had boots on the ground in Iraq I supported them 100%.
Afghanistan has a link to 911. Iraq didnt