Embarrassing admission: I forgot today is 6th anniversary of Bush's Invasion of Iraq

I didn't remember until I read Spencer Ackerman's post at Firedoglake, about Big Oil apparently getting its hands on as much as 75% of Iraq's oil.

Commenter eCAHNomics linked to Think Progress's post noting that few of the nation's newspapers noted the anniversary. Lots of good linkiness at the TP link:

...the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, and many other major American newspapers are ignoring the anniversary today. Only USA Today printed a story noting the anniversary of the invasion.

Commenter Dogfather pointed out:

I generally don’t like to defend WaPo, but they did have a major article in last Sunday’s paper marking the anniversary, focusing on the Iraqi point of view of the US invasion of their country and how that point of view differs from what’s typically reported in the US media (go figure…).

Commenter backup links to a Gallup poll which indicates public's views becoming more optimistic about Iraq and less about optimistic about Afghanistan.

Sixty-four percent now believe the United States can win the war, and 42% believe it will do so. Both are the best assessments Gallup has measured since June 2006.

SNIP

It is important to point out that even as American support for the Afghanistan war is declining, and even as Americans perceive greater progress in Iraq than in Afghanistan, public support for the war in Afghanistan is still higher than for the Iraq war.

Americans have been supportive of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan since they were launched in October 2001 in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In contrast, the Iraq war began with limited international backing and with most Democratic members of Congress -- including many who authorized military action in Iraq -- quickly coming to oppose the war.

SNIP

With reports of increased difficulty in achieving U.S. objectives in Afghanistan, and with the Obama administration's committing greater resources to the mission, it is unclear whether majority support for the war will continue without tangible signs of progress. But signs of progress can quickly turn around Americans' perceptions of the conflict (if not their basic support), as has occurred with regard to the Iraq war in recent years, essentially since the "surge" of troops in Iraq was implemented.

Short attention span for war here at home, I guess.

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McClatchy noticed

In Iraq, a boy named 'War' turns 6:

Today, War turns 6. He's never had a birthday party.

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