Reply #35: Bush's propaganda never got backed up by his asking for sacrifice of

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the citizenry. He barked about the terrorists and used the macho posturing you indicate to effective advantage as long as all that was going on in Baghdad was pulling down Saddam Hussein's statue.

When the rubble began to pile up and the black smoked started rising along the landscape, and the Iraq government(s) and various alliant-coalitions began to "turn on each other like rats in a slumfire" (Hunter S. Thompson's phrase), there were no words to buoy the propaganda and public support fell rapidly.

Eventualy Congress has gotten the message from constituents that there is no support for Bush's war and significantly less support for individual Congresscritters if they support Bush's war.

As long as it seemed to take, it happened far faster than public shift in the Vietnam years.

And of course, "Old Europe" was exactly right about this from the very first instant, even as Dubya was publicly ridiculing those nations.