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I appreciate your insights. Your assrtion that the media sees "Republican lead wars" as inherently bad particularly resonates in this day and age. Does anyone believe that the media would not have reported Iraq differently if Al Gore had been the Commander-in-Chief (I know, I know, Al Gore would still be at the UN demanding another resolution in real life---but let's pretend).

The media wanted this war more than anybody did, they put pressure on, just before the war if Bush had returned the Troops, there would have been another outcry, The Media could't wait to get there,, Then they got a reality check, and didn't like what they saw a War. not a movie. So they think its all Bush and Blair's fault, blame them. for everything.

Not only the media, but Democrats themselves would be treating the war in Iraq as a war of liberation. I'll repeat what's often said about the war in Kosovo:

1. No threat to U.S.security.
2. No U.N. approval (not even requested).
3. No post-war plan (situation still unresolved, five years after the war).
4. No national debate - there truly was a "rush to war."
5. "Genocide" claims were exaggerated.
6. We were immersing ourselves in ancient ethnic/religious quagmire.
7. Civilians bore the brunt of the conflict - targeting of infrastructure (NO American military casualties - a coward's war?)
8. Use of depleted uranium.
9. Siding with terrorists (KLA).

So most Dems supported a war that had many of the same alleged defects as the war in Iraq.