You are right, of course. Unfortunately, this will be blamed on Bush ("Bush lied us into Iraq War and torture!") and unfortunatelly many on the right, including an incredibly large number of FR members, will agree with that, because they can't separate the purpose and the goals of the mission from its execution (and by execution I mean both military — which was amazingly good under the circumstances — and sustained political and PR effort — which was amazingly poor, misguided and mishandled).
Liberals / Progressives had a handbook on eventually undermining any US military intervention, no matter how necessary or even initially overwhelmingly supported by them ("I was for it before I was against it") since Vietnam. The conservatives, and especially their leadership, should have been prepared and ready for that eventual Second Front / Fifth Column, yet they fail because not enough attention is given to or enough talent deployed for the sustained PR, which eventually leads to waning and failing mission.
Of course, no mention will be made of Afghanistan, Libya and other places where Obama made a huge mess all on his own...
Many people on FR suffer from as bad a case of BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) as those on the left. In my opinion, not all of his decisions were good, and he finally let himself be way too influenced by the Dems in his “reaching across the aisle,” but he loved his country - which in his case, refreshingly, is the US - and genuinely tried to do what he thought was right to keep the country safe against a weird, constantly morphing threat from the past: the galloping hordes of Islam.
It’s one thing to be able to fight a war with a state, but he was in new territory here and, even soon after the Iraq war started, was abandoned and even attacked by the Democrats so that he had to fight for every bit of support he got.