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The difference, here, is that the wars were popular in the beginning for Bush. The people wanted war in Afghanistan and Iraq, because the regime put in the effort and spent the time necessary to propagandize the population. The wars became unpopular.
In this case, the war started unpopular. That's the difference. Wars aren't inherently popular, there needs to be a mass mobilization of the propaganda networks to drum up support for war. They have the whole thing backwards, they're forcing the war on us and the pundits are trying to convince us its good after the fact. That absolutely won't work, it's all downhill from here.
Time will tell. I'm not sure I trust our country to give enough of a shit for it to matter.