I agree with Pollster1 on this. It was unpalatable, but what we thought had to be done, particularly with staging and airbases.
He may have been wrong, but that was largely uncharted and hazard filled water.
GWB was a flat-out traitor who spent his entire term enacting Saudi foreign policy and covering up their crimes against us.
The GWB-as-naif theory doesn’t hold a drop of water.