Steven Warshawsky's piece on public opposition to the Iraq War is silly if not windy.  Bush's drop in public opinion  [is] due to the public's disaffection with the President's much more grandiose vision of using American troops to spread freedom and democracy in the Middle East.  It's the nation—building, stupid. Rubbish.  The drop in public opinion is associated with the perception that things are going poorly.  The writer is wrong in is sense of the timeline of events.  Well before the invasion of Iraq, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld were declaring that one of the pillars of the Bush doctrine, viz., spreading/encouraging democracies.   Five minutes of internet research reveals that the author has arrived on a spurious correlation between drop in public opinion for the war and what were clearly its stated objectives long before the invasion, and in the months following. "In their public pronouncements, President Bush and his...(Read Full Post)