1)Americans are getting a far different mental image of the war than in GWI. This isn't video games. It's real heros enduring almost unbearable conditions and delivering their finest performance in service to our nations in protecting our freedoms.
2) Death is real, sometimes quick, mostly dirty.
3) War is hell, and with the "direct connect" to the battle fields every American can feel an emotional connection to what is taking place right now. You cannot help but support the troops and our leaders knowing what we are encountering out there.
4) Seeing the progress outright and watching the leftists media's version, we are seeing an image of the war which they cannot spin into something worse. They can take their shots, but when we are seeing divisions of soliders parking just miles outside of our destination in just a few days, it's really, really, really hard for a liberal to paint their efforts as a "failure" or say their "bogged down".