[truthfreedom]

The Iraq war, or, more specifically, the desire to stay in Iraq after we accomplished our objectives, is what had Bush’s popularity under 30% in 2006.

Rove and the neocons did not make things better for Bush in 2006 or 2008.

[SevenMinusOne]

Wrong. Zarqawi and AQI were still very much alive and strong in 2006. We had not accomplished our goals in Iraq by then. In fact, it was in 2006/07 that Iraq was finally won! (I was there). GWB did it exactly right with Iraq and seeing it through. History will be very kind to him, because of his leadership in this regard.

It was immigration reform that kept our base home. It was immigration reform that dropped GWB into the 30%, not Iraq.