Not sure what made you think I was talking about how the US felt about it. They obviously loved it very much. As luck would have it, the US became net exporter just a few years after the conquest

A very large part of this is because of literally outright lies about how Iraq was connected to 9/11. The administration knew that this was the only way they could convince anybody.

The hardest part of my job is connecting Iraq to 9/11 - Bush