It's not just that. You can only be lied to so many times before you finally catch on - and our government loves to lie.

That's one thing, but also...like, there really hasn't been a massive campaign to garner support for this. Yknow...how it usually goes. It took years to garner support for Vietnam, and even then it was unpopular for obvious reasons. The gulf war had a much more concerted effort and at least bothered to have a figure head whiner to justify the war, and Iraq had months upon months of build up and...idk somehing happened a couple years before that made Americans extra jingoistic...idk, probably wasn't important.

It doesn't help that America is, yknow, losing. The US won the intial conventional conflict in Iraq so being against it didn't have a material backing. When gas prices are squeezing people into poverty...now they have to take interest.

But yeah, the fact that there are so many alternative news sources rather than just the cable outlets really helps. Honestly I'm surprised the government hasn't pulled an africastream/reddot again. Just say xyz are funded by China or Russia or Iran and Google can take care of the rest