I also admit

My feelings about Bush prior to the war made me much less likely to support the war in the first place. I think this goes for most of the rest of the world that he offended from his first days in office. Now, just because the world's offended doesn't mean it's right - we don't get to vote on the truth, after all - but it does mean that Bush was always going to have to work harder to convince than someone else would have. He seemed to work moderately hard to bully, but not so hard to convince.