I was thinking the protests during the build up, and no matter what happend they never served to diswade people, in fact we started getting people protesting the protests. during this time those of us suporting the war were convinveced due to amung other reasons that old political rivals to Bush (Clinton, Gore, Kerry) had said the same thing in the past that he was now saying and to many it seemed the only reason they changed there minds was because a republican was now saying it, and the fact that if he was wrong it was going to not only destroy him but the rest of the republican party, it is a mirical that he got reelected, only the democrats complete and utter ineptitude at provideing a decent alternative prevented his loss, mark my words the republicans are going to start looseing power starting next election.
now you have 60-70% of the people absolutely convinced that there is at least a huge stockpile of chemical weapons in Iraq and that he is fully capable and motivated to use them, if you start showing protestors all your going to do is make these people definceive and thicker skulled, and that is just what happened, the more people protest the firmer the suport for the war became. it wasn't untill a year later and we haddn't found a drop, or a single peice of paper to justify the war that suport began to wane, and the only reason people suport it now is basicly either a 'we need to clean up our mess' mentality or recognition that a large number of people we should have been fighter have moved in to were we were fighting. prety much no one thinks in retrospect that invadeing Iraq was such a great idea, and now were just trying to fix as much of the damage we caused as we posably can.
