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It may not have felt like war for people in the US but for people in Iraq it certainly did.

It felt more like a war for the rural parts of America, because per capita their children were sacrificed at a higher rate.

And per capita they had a higher rate of voting for the representatives that voted for that war.

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1...

GP was talking about Iraq. That resolution is 3 days after 9/11 pointed "against those responsible for the recent attacks launched against the United States." So not Iraq.

Actually relevant is a year later the vote about Iraq, in which a majority, 157/267, of U.S. Democrat Representatives and Senators were opposed. Left up to the decision of Democrats, there would be no Iraq war. I don't know how people vote Republican just 20 years later. That is lost on most people. I would know, I grew up in a rah rah Bush household.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Milit...

Good catch, sorry about that. Looks like it was only ~40% of democrats in the house that voted to go to Iraq.

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