As predictable as gravity.
One of the main things I told everyone to watch for as a sign of victory in the Middle Eastern area was that people would begin to try and write Bush out of it, as surely as they have tried to write Reagan out of the Cold War victory.
More on the "dominoes of freedom" here.
Make no mistake. This transformation didn't just happen to coincide with the terms of Bush, Blair, and Howard. Expect the mainstream media to sell that meme in the next few weeks -- how George Bush, especially, got lucky to just happen to be President when all of this happened. Don't buy it for a second. He saw how to change the world and eliminate terrorism over the long haul and more importantly had the political courage to act in that regard.