At least conservatives in Europe "get it" regarding Iraq and, because the European media is not harping about Iraq (and not covering the Bitch in the Ditch story), I would say a majority of people in Europe are happy that Iraq is going to be a democracy.
I would take Spain or Italy over New Hampshire (the socalled "Granite State") any day in terms of meeting conservative people who have a "granite" backbone and admire George Bush and want to stand up for what is right in this war.
America is in an unhealthy obsession of "debating" what should be regarded all around as a genuine plus. We have not been attacked since 9-11. We took the war to the enemy and they are busy losing to us there. What more of a *plus* do you want?? Why even a debate? Because old-style conservativism was isolationist? Sorry. Old style conservatism can be found mainly at MoveOn.org.
The Iraq War lasted 3 weeks. Since then, it has been just a campaign by our enemies in Iran and Syria and Saudi Arabia to enlist traitorous Americans as their allies by killing our soldiers not to gain territory or even accomplish anything in Iraq itself...but to demoralize us and therefore keep us from ever overthrowing them themselves.
But we will overthrow those enemies for having spent the past 2 years killing our soldiers. We will do so despite the opposite of "Granite State Conservatives." I just don't know what the plan is. Will we use secret indigenous armies? Do we have moles in place? I don't know.
Meanwhile, it just doesn't make sense that so many Rhinos in the Blue States AGREE with the leftists on this war. To me it is like they have no spine. They had no spine in the early 70s and gave the country to the leftists (while giving future enemies like Bin Laden a reason to believe we can be defeated with 7 years of effort in killing American troops), and now they are willingly giving places like New Hampshire and Wisconsin over to leftist hegemony, while signalling to our enemies that they can easily defeat "Granite State Conservatives" by killing American soldiers after they win a 3 week war in the future.
Our troops need to be in Iraq now because they need to finish training the Iraqi Army and or be moving into Iran and Syria soon.
There have been some sporadic "lone nut" attacks in the US (Charles Bishop/Bishra, the DC Sniper Duo, the anthrax attacks, the shoe bomber caught in the act on a plane...) as well as notable bombings in Bali, Madrid, and London.
We have not heard of some of the successes (the only I know that was disclosed was a plot to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge; Ed Koch,I think, made reference to it in FahrenHYPE 911, the answer film to Michael Moore's film).
There are near flashpoint events from the Cold War that are only now coming to light.
We will never hear how many attempts there have been that were thwarted. Lets the enemy know too much.
When the terrorist threat level is raised, who's to say that it was all a "false alarm"?
When the leftists scream, "Why are we fighting in Iraq? We were not attacked by Iraqis on 911! The Madrid and London bombings were not carried out by Iraqis!" just point out that we are not fighting against Iraqis in Iraq. We are fighting foreign terrorists along side Iraqis.
If that fails to move them, ask them when we were attacked by Bosnia.