So for YEARS under Bush the left proclaimed that Bush WOULD invade Iran. Not that he might but would before he leaves office.
EagleSmack, if the Iraq operation had gone smoothly, Bush very likely would have invaded Iran. I still remember the heady days just after USA drove Saddam out and took over Iraq. The insurgency was safely into the future, and everybody thought that Iraq war was over.
There was the talk of coming American empire. After all, USA for the first time invaded and captured a country which had done no direct harm to USA, so why wouldn’t it do the same to other countries, like Iran? I remember one British professor wrote an essay describing how the coming American empire was going to be more benign and longer lasting than British Empire. Bush had an approval rating of over 90%.
So if Iraq operation had gone smoothly, Bush very likely would have invaded Iran and American people would have supported him whole heartedly (at least until the operation turned sour).