Why are all those people applauding this military guy -- they are ALL against the war?
They're only against the war because they despise the current CIC and his success. If a Rat were now President and conducting the WOT in exactly the same manner Bush is now conducting it - a big IF, to be sure - all these idiots would be cheering him on enthusiastically and praising his freeing the oppressed peoples of Iraq and Afghanistan.
But they'd never admit it. That would require sanity.