That's because you don't have a clue what's at stake.
Only someone who believes this is an optional war looks at a 60% poll number against the fight and acquiesces to it.
And only someone who doesn't get it believes this an an optional war.
There's not much more I can say. You just don't get it.
Yes, the future of the Republican Party is at stake in the next election. The US may not survive as a capitalist, First Amendment-honoring country if today's Democrat Party wins a landslide next year. The Iraq war threatens to give the Democrats a victory on that scale. With the Democrats in power, foreign AND domestic policy goes off the rails.