The enthusiastic support for regime change in Iraq in late 1998 among both Democrats and Republicans in Congress and by a Democratic president and his senior advisers quickly faded from memory after President George W. Bush (Bush 43) invaded Iraq in March 2003. Regime change was a great idea when all it involved was rhetorical chest-thumping; over time, as the reality—and costs—of making it happen sank in, too many sunshine soldiers on Capitol Hill and from the Clinton administration fled the political battlefield. —
