There were worldwide protests if you'll recall. So yep, I'd agree with that.
Been telling you that for almost 20 years. Straight out of an insane asylum.
-Make Iran an enemy by destroying their democracy
-Shockingly, they don't like this new US toady, and rebel
-US feigns shock at this new "enemy", and figures its a great idea to bankroll their neighbor, Saddam
-Shockingly, Saddam takes advantage of this US backing, increases his regional power and invades Kuwait
-US feigns shock at this new "enemy", and invades. Opens bases throughout the ME. It escapes attention that we caused every single one of these problems. All of them. No one thinks "hey, maybe the entire problem is what we're doing...and we should stop messing around in the ME".
-Saddam causes even more problems. We decide to invade Iraq, because the last invasion worked so well. We remove all Iraqi power
-Shockingly, Iran takes advantage of the power vacuum, and starts causing problems
-US leadership feigns surprise that we're not liked in Iran, and can't imagine why Iranians would possibly not like us. After all, we've made the region such a lovely place for them, and admitting our past errors, and working to help the non-hardliners live a normal life would be insane.
Yep. Whiplash. And that's just two countries we're discussing here.