[Davros]

I think TL that you still have first worlders pulling together in the war on terror. I think though that too many Americans now equate the war on terror almost uniquely with the war on Iraq. Iraq had only tenuous links to terror in terms of the coalitions interests in being there. We had the strangely absent WOMD, theremoval of a pain in the ass, later we had the freeing of the people, and for the truly cynical, the oil.

There have been transcripts that showed that while Bush wanted to make a terror link early, the intelligence sources would not confirm anything for him to hang his hat on. The most that we had going in where some suspicions, some leads, amd the fact that the state sponsored terrorism against Israel (hardly an unusual thing for an Arab nation but they were more open about it that others).

I think that the influx of so many suicide bombers into Iraq, attacking coalition targets (mainly US) is what has driven the stronger association link between the war on terror and the war on Iraq to the American people. You won't see your administration pick you up on this misperception either, because if people are linking the 2 struggles more closely it gives them greater domestic support for being there in the first place.

Bottom line - War on Terror = world support and co-operation. War on Iraq = mixed response and enthusiasm. Equation - War on Terror does not equal War on Iraq.