The war was very unpopular then.
See Gallup polls and every single other poll.
Do you dispute that fact?
We lost in 2006 and 2008.
Do you dispute that fact?
Libertarians and the Islamofascists lost pretty badly.
"We are especially not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states run by the strangest collection of misfits, Looney Tunes and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich" --Ronald Reagan