"What is going on now is not war, but reconstruction"
-Your first sentence. So to put it more precisely, nation-building. It has never been in the best interest of our country to get into nation building, President Bush USED TO know this, as he himself said "Let me tell you what else I'm worried about: I'm worried about an opponent who uses nation building and the military in the same sentence. See, our view of the military is for our military to be properly prepared to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place." in 2000, the line was an explicit condemnation of Clinton/Gore foreign policy--specifically that the White House had stretched the military to...

"What is going on now is not war, but reconstruction"
-Your first sentence. So to put it more precisely, nation-building. It has never been in the best interest of our country to get into nation building, President Bush USED TO know this, as he himself said "Let me tell you what else I'm worried about: I'm worried about an opponent who uses nation building and the military in the same sentence. See, our view of the military is for our military to be properly prepared to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place." in 2000, the line was an explicit condemnation of Clinton/Gore foreign policy--specifically that the White House had stretched the military too thin with peacekeeping mission in Haiti, Somalia and the Balkans. So please if you are urging folks to support our president and the mission in Iraq, bring a better argument to the table than this. If democracy comes to Iraq, that's nice, but what I want is what all Americans should want, the destruction of our enemies. That WAS the mission, not nation-building. The lines have become too blurred now, that is where the support of the American people has gotten lost.