Sooo... loads of polls, real-life events, and reprecussions of the last five and a half years lead you to this conclusion.
Honestly, this is the Republican "idea" for the war:
"It's hard work, but we're going to be right in the end."
It doesn't address loss of life in all involved parties, political instability in the region resulting from our incursion, a seeming endless string of destructive conflict, and that we ended up in this mess under false pretenses. It reads like a quarterly earnings report that never delivers.
Don't give me some bullshit about Saddam being a super-duper threat to the United States, because it's a fucking fallacy and you know it. Before you go on with some sarcastic "oh yeah, because he was the most peaceful guy, like, ever" response, he was a danger, yes. But not so much that we had to go and invade the country pre-emptively. It eats at the right-wingers in this country that they were fooled, but many still stick with it until the comapny goes bankrupt/they're voted out of office. You know very well that we should be engaged militarily with those who actually attacked us, you know, al-Queda. "Oh, but we are! We're fighting them off every day in Iraq!" WHAT WERE WE DOING IN IRAQ IN THE FIRST PLACE?
How anyone can still support such shallow, corporate sorts of philosophies as a method for running a country that is not only the most powerful in the world (something people loooooove talking about), but can do the most for the world in other, positive ways (something people don't talk about).
BUT THE TERRORISTS ARE COMING... ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO THEM... THERMONUCLEAR WEAPONS COULD BE SMUGGLED INTO THIS NATION AT ANY MOMENT TO KILL YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR DOG... WE ARE DOING ALL WE CAN TO KILL THESE BARBARIANS IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM...
Man, fuck that. There's far more important shit that needs to be addressed, and 80% of it was highlighted over a week between August and September last year. More and more people are realizing what's truly deserving of attention, and shaping the Middle East to our desires is simply not something we care about. We want to avenge 9/11 (look up a recent survey where 30% of people couldn't remember what year the 9/11 is tied to) and make ourselves as safe as possible though. Fucking up another region of the world is not what Americans feel is necessary to be safe and prosperous, and no amount of sticking your fingers in your ears and grandstanding is going to change that.