The people have voted and we must obey.
Why was GWB reelected, if neocons hated waste, stupidity, and repeating the same mistakes? Some fanatics attacked America, so GWB invaded Iraq. The same GWB who opposed "nation building" in the campaign went to it with a will, once elected. And we all know the fallout of the "compassionate conservative's" drive for an "Ownership Society."
Yet patent absurdities like the carrier landing of "Mission Accomplished," a decade before Iraq could stand on its own, didn't even produce embarrassment. Why didn't America fire that ineffective white President? Because they could drink a beer with him?