[Aloofi]

Originally posted by rextorres:
it does seem that most people who wanted this war - wanted this war "no matter what". Why else would their rational for supporting the war shift?

You got to see it from another point of view. War is a nice change in the daily routine, and as a side effect it gets rid of the old munitions. Also, professional soldiers need at least a war to make it to the big leagues, and then you need to rebuild all that have been destroyed during the war, plus new hardware to replace the damaged ones like planes and tanks. War is not longer as good a business as it used to be, but it can still make a couple bucks.