http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/05/28/1388566/-62-percent-of-Republicans-still-say-Iraq-War-was-the-right-thing-to-do
This has to be simple tribalism, right?
Going to war with Iraq was the wrong thing to do, American voters say 59 - 32 percent. Republicans support the 2003 decision 62 - 28 percent, while opposition is 78 - 16 percent among Democrats and 65 - 26 percent among independent voters.
That's from a Quinnipiac poll released just this week, and that's a gigantic gap. That the Iraq War still enjoys 60+ percent support among Republicans while Democrats and independent support is only 16 percent and 26 percent respectively only makes sense if (1) the two sides reside in different dimensions, each with a different set of facts or (2) since the Iraq War was a Republican "thing," the wide long swath of the Republican base will continue to think it was a good idea from now until hell freezes over out of simple spite.
President Obama could never have gained Republican support for any similarly sized operation in Libya, unquestionably run by a dictator just as rotten and just as linked to terror; President Clinton was pilloried for a far smaller intervention in Eastern Europe meant to staunch what had moved from bloody war to genocide—he was only doing it to distract from his problems here at home, the critics wailed. A trillion dollars, uncountably many dead and a region writhing in the throes of war and terrorism, though, that continues to be a damn fine choice.
There is no doubt some of the Fox effect going on here. In embarrassingly large numbers, Republicans continue to believe that Iraq was involved with 9/11 or that weapons of mass destruction were in fact found, though both were proven false a long time ago; this lack of basic structural knowledge about their own supposed beliefs is endemic among Fox News viewers, thanks to a bevy of self-interested network hosts and guests themselves continuing to prop up such claims regardless of the evidence.
for some the embracing of republican overtures of how the world is better since Saddam is no longer here even though facts show he had nothing to do with 911, strangely enough you don't hear that the world or America is much safer since Bin Laden is not here, could it be because it was a failed (intentional effort) by republicans and fulfilled by Pres.? you know they can not give him credit for anything it might make him look good as if his record doesn't already do that. or is it the unilateral denial marching order of 2008 "he get's nothing"???
something else we don't hear is the thousands of lives and families impacted by their war of choice and now with ISIS they are trying to blame Pres. for that too. Pres. cleaned up their economic mess just not fast enough for them now he's cleaning up their wars and again not fast enough and in their words "making a big mess out of everything". they do the deed and try to blame Pres. inspite of 12 years of exposing their complicity to all that has gone wrong from ignoring the warnings to letting Bin Laden escape US capture to now having nothing to do with any of it.
