You're right that Bush is more popular in Nebraska than in the country as a whole ... according to SurveyUSA, George W. Bush has a 52 percent job approval rating in Nebraska.
http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollTrack.aspx?g=5008e5be-069f-4250-ac20-3d7a7619d935
But ... Chuck Hagel has a 59 percent job approval rating.
http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollTrack.aspx?g=0c9c08bb-f403-486a-9a60-4dbef1189a04
Senator Hagel will probably survive 2008 if we're still in Iraq. But, I see a quite a few Republican Senators who look like they'll be vulnerable.
Why do I have to live under Democrats because the Iraqis cannot stand up and defend their country?
We're not fighting Iraqi laziness. We're fighting a make-believe civil war manufactured by Iranian Hezbollah and al Qaeda terrorists designed to create mayhem, break our will, send us running and deliver the oil-rich country to radical islamists. The Iraqis are bearing the brunt of the casualties in this fight, let's not forget that.
The "civil war" is a fake. The Mahdi Army is not engaging Sunni fighters out in the streets or vice versa. The Mahdi Army sets off bombs in Sunni neighborhoods, killing Sunni civilians. Then al Qaeda sets off its bombs in Shia neighborhoods, killing Shia civilians. And around and around it goes. Neither side has any interest in killing the fighters on the other side. They're their to kill civilians. To manufacture mayhem. To prevent the new government from establishing itself among the Iraqi people. It's a simple divide and conquer strategy. And if the radical islamists drive us out, guess who takes over. We got 250,000 Iraqis promptly murdered when we bailed in 1991. This time around, the toll will be incalculable. That's what Chuck Hagel and Democrats' "phased redeployment" will get us: Mass genocide and an Iranian-allied terrorist state in Iraq.
As far as why you have to live under Democrats... that's easy. Because enough Americans don't understand what's going on. They simply don't pay attention.