Whenever I hear about the Iraq war on the "leftist" podcasts I listen to (other than Media Roots Radio) I always get hit with the usual suspects to blame - freakin' Hillary, the 'Democrat' party leadership (most rank-and-file congressional Ds voted against Iraq), or the uniquely evil super-genius Bush.
Why does no one ever dive into opinion polls at the time showing something like 70-80% of wypipo supported the invasion? It isn't even uniquely interesting to point out 'hypocrites' like Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump or Glenn Greenwald supported invading Iraq - because it would be really strange if they didn't. I do remember Bill Maher saying US troops would get their asses kicked in March 2003 but that was probably just part of his bit of being the ugly guy who gets booed
I knew the jingoism was very blatant to the point of being silly but since I'm Canadian I didn't really have a grasp on how popular the attitude was there. I figured the supporters were just loud racist rednecks because that was the style at the time.
Where I lived it was quite safe to assume that you were against the war and shitting on Bush was the most normie humor. As Canadians we need to really hang on to the few miniscule things that make us slightly better than America so our country doing the bare minimum to assist the US without getting them upset at us like France and not formally declaring war really brought everyone together in smugness for a bit
Shit, I remember going to a beach in Toronto not long after the invasion of Iraq and there were some dudes burning an effigy of Bush 2 and no one cared
it's pretty great in retrospect tbh