That was 2004 John Kerry would have given him flack as it was war fever in Iraq wore off by 2004 Bush got a relatively narrow win over Kerry.
What’s interesting about Iraq as the WMD theory of the Neocons wore thin by 2005-2006 the rhetoric against Syria heated up.
It was said in Neocon Land that WMD from Iraq got moved to Syria.
By 2011 the US backed use of Al Qaeda jihadists to wage war against Iranian ally Syria was fully underway.
There was plenty of fighting going on in Iraq after the 2004 election. We had the means and the motives to do something meaningful against Iran, particularly since they were the ones supplying the insurgents. We wouldn't have had to be overt, like sending tanks across the border, but we could have definitely given a little something back to Iran. Why did we do nothing about the world's biggest sponsor of terrorism (the Obama and Biden administrations hadn't come along yet) after we had just removed the counterbalance to that state? It's a serious question and one that has always bothered me.