Here in rec.travel.air, nobody spake unto us, saying:
Richard Steiner wrote:

I find it somewhat shocking that citizens of the US are being portrayed
as all lining up behind their leadership. That simply isn't happening.

Why then are the media continuing the impression that there is a solid
support for the invasion of Iraq and all of the measures taken with the
pretense that they are to combat terrorism ?

That would be an excellent question.

If there were a significant portion of americans who are against the current
government, why then did the democrats support that government instead of
pointing out all the lies and mistakes/errors prior to the war beginning ?

It's one thing to tentatively go along with the initial invasion based
on the information available at the time (and also taking into account
the potential political backlash of not supporting the leader of the
country immediately after 9/11), and quite another to continue to agree
with the subseqent actions taken in Iraq by the current administration.

The actions in Iraq, the stated and perceived contexts in which those
actions were (and are) taken, and the available information about the
situation there both now and before the initial invasion have been in
constant flux over that entire period of time.

When both the media and the opposition fail to challenge a government,
it is because there is solid support from the population.

Many of the people I know who are against the current actions in Iraq
were actually supportive of them initially, but as time has gone on it
has become apparent that the current US administration was not exactly
forthright about the information it actually had at the time.

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