Similar to the phenomenon that there is nothing that Bush can do that is right, even if he reverses course and does the exact opposite of what the Left was protesting before. Just the way it is.

The job will go forward, and the usual people will bitch the entire way.

Yet if you accuse any of them of preferring the alternative--decades of rule by Saddam and sons--they will become highly indignant at this. The fact that such an alternative was logically inescapable had we left Iraq alone does not faze them.

The more idiotic ones will declare that surely the Marsh Arabs would have risen up and destroyed the Baathist regime if we had just left well enough alone.