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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (148816)10/24/2004 11:14:27 AM
From: Michael Watkins  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
You are missing the point.

I'm not dismissing nor ignoring the protests and protesters, there are always protests. I'm discussing support from nations.

In Afghanistan, the US did get *real* international support from nation states. For an example of the difference between Afghanistan and Iraq, NATO is in Afghanistan, not in Iraq.

Aside from support from a couple of individual NATO member states, Bush was unable to get the approval needed from NATO member states as a whole to go into Iraq.

My comment stands. Among allies that count, Afghanistan troubled no one - support was broad. This is NOT the case with Iraq.



To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (148816)10/24/2004 11:31:20 PM
From: Sam  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Nadine,
Compared with the protests against going into Iraq, protests against Afghanistan were miniscule. Most people understood that once the Taliban sided with Al Qaeda, that was it.

Iraq was a totally different story, despite efforts by so many to make it all part of the same fight.


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