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Did these signs and stickers go up before or after the invasion? Here is the part of the blurb you point to that I find most enlightening:

"I'm going to come clean and candid about this - in all honesty, this talk of liberation came out of the blue. Up until about a year ago, I had no idea Iraq was even a problem anymore. Rush wasn't talking about Iraq. Bill O'Reilly wasn't talking about Iraq. Mr. Cheney, Mr. Rumsfeld and General Powell weren't discussing Iraq on any of the Sunday morning chatter shows. But Mr. Bush declared Iraq a danger, so Iraq was a danger. Mr. Bush told us Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda were connected, so Saddam must have had something to do with September 11. Was Saddam plotting to launch poisonous missiles at us? I didn't know about it until our president told us so. So when Mr. Bush announced it was time for regime change, damn it, it was time for regime change."

>In early 2003 we even had bumper stickers:
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>http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0522-09.htm
>Each of us has lawn signs and bumper stickers that say "Liberate Iraq." For months, we've stood behind those words with concrete American grit and might
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>In May, people were getting concerned that we wouldn't pull out as soon as Iraq was 'liberated.'
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>I am amazed you don't remember. Of course, that could have been only here...
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>>>>but overall, if he touted the liberation aspect leading up to the invasion, it must have been a pretty minimal effort.
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>>>Why, because it didn't register with you? Because you ignored it? It WAS in the media here. Most people focused on Colin Powell's briefing though and disregarded the rest.
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>>Well, I thought I was following the news reports, but if you say it was reasonably prominent in the administrations exhortations for invading Iraq then I'll take your word for it and assume it just didn't register with me. Though I'm hard pressed to figure out why that would be. Personally I think (and again, I could be wrong) that if there, it was exceedingly minor in amongst all the other rhetoric.
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