>I believed them for the most part. Turns out they, and thus I, were wrong.
And I knew it. (Is there any easy way to search one's own posts for a particular time period?)
>Can't say for sure whether I would have still supported the war had the administration been more realistic about the costs, both in terms of lives and money. I think I would have, if only out of admiration for such candor, but I doubt many other people would have as well.
Honestly, I'd have been more likely to. Well, I said before the war that we'd lose about 1,000 lives through the whole thing but that we'd pull out there'd be either a horrible civil war or another brutal dictator, not a democracy. If the admin had been honest, and also given me a reason to believe that we really could impose a democracy in a year or two, then I'd have been much more for the war.
Of course, there's a major difference in my thinking then vs. my thinking now... I thought it would be a good idea to put a Muslim democracy in the Middle East... it's since dawned on me that there already is one, and democracy still isn't beginning to flourish throughout the ME -- Turkey! So, maybe the New American Century Project was a bad idea, good planning or bad planning.
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