[Meatspace]

Most everyone in the entire country was opposed to the Iraq War, all except for Joe Biden.

[rintintin]

Trump on Iraq: “One Of The Worst Decisions In The History Of The Country”

Realclearpolitics. Feb 17 2016

At a town hall event in Bluffton, South Carolina today Donald Trump expounded on his remarks about George W. Bush, his handling of the 9/11 terrorist attack and the invasion of Iraq. Trump said all he is doing is telling the truth and he doesn’t care if Bush is insulted because he made “one of the worst decisions in the history of the country.”

“You know, if Bush is insulted, I don’t care if he’s insulted,” Trump said Wednesday. “It was a horrible mistake. We should have never been there. Somebody says, oh, that’s not good to criticize? I say criticize? It’s one of the worst decisions in the history of the country. We have totally destabilized the Middle East.”

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/02/17/trump_on_iraq_how_could_we_have_been_so_stupid_one_of_the_worst_decisions_in_the_history_of_the_country.html

[Buckeye McFrog]

Most everyone in the entire country was opposed to the Iraq War

Not true. It's easy to Monday-morning quarterback this, but the vast majority of the country supported it, including me.

Got to remember we were not long past 9-11 and every intel agency on the planet was saying Saddam had weapons of mass destruction (which we had actually seen used on the Kurds). With the nation jittery about more terror attacks and that kind of capability out there most people were willing to give Bush a free hand to oust Saddam, who had been a boil on the butt of humanity for far too long.

And if Bush had just deposed Saddam and gotten out instead of getting into this whole nation building exercise the move would still be popular.

It's OK to say you've changed your mind on this, as I have. But revisionist history gets us nowhere.