>Culture, politics, and location seem to be everything. At the time, you didn't dare voice disagreement with it here. Everyone was for it. However, in Grand Junction, CO it was much like your area with the majority against it and they vocalized their dissent loudly.
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Not by a long shot. Everyone was in agreement to go into Afghanistan, nobody would voice an objection to that. Iraq was another story, hardly a "slam dunk" with the public.