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Yep, it's like if you polled Americans and their representatives whether the US should invade and take over Iraq on Sept 10, 2001 vs March 19th, 2003.

9/11 and then a year and a half of constant "axis of evil" propaganda and suddenly a majority in congress was behind those actions.

But if you'd told people in May, June, August of 2001 that the US would be mobilizing for full invasion of another country, they'd tell you there was no support for that. And Bush's approval ratings were really low, too.






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