Since George Bush campaigned for President strongly against nation building..?

Question

Since George Bush campaigned for President strongly against nation building, in what ways are our actions in Iraq not nation building?

Answer 1

Of course they are. It is just that neocons are pathological liars. Therefore, you cannot hold what they say against them, because you should have known it was a lie.

Answer 2

He also campaigned on maintaining a balanced budget, reducing the size of the government, putting authority back in the hands of the states, 'cleaning up' Washington after the Clinton scandals, and working to bridge the divide between Republicans and Democrats.

We've doubled the national debt, increased the size of the government, enacted some of the most expensive eduational and entitlement programs in 30 years, watched many of his GOP friends investigated for everything to taking bribes to revealing classified informtion to sending sexual messages to minors, and fostering an atmosphere in which you either agree with the White House or you are ostracized.

Given all that, what's one more lie?

Answer 3

William Kristol also said [2003]: "If you read Condi Rice's articles on foreign affairs in 1999 and 2000, she was clearly the main adviser to Governor Bush. She was skeptical about a lot of these claims that the U.S. really had to shape a new world order, that we had to engage in nation building, that we might have to intervene in several places at once. She was much more, I think, kind of a cautious realist than she is today." (1) . and this ... . He tells FRONTLINE that the significance of President George W. Bush's State of the Union address in 2002 (the "axis of evil" speech) is too easily forgotten -- that it was a rare moment, "the creation of a new American foreign policy" -- and that Bush deserves credit for realizing very quickly after Sept. 11 that his presidency would be judged by how he handled the post-9/11 threat of weapons of mass destruction.(1) From these one might gather that Condi Rice had more influence than Kristol on Bush foreign policy. And that ... Things happen [9/11] which makes other things [US policy] change. .

Answer 4

Some might consider the Bush actions a flip-flop.

Answer 5

Bush is like Jim Carrey in Liar, Liar, except he's not funny.

Answer 6

Yeah, and "I'm not interested in regime change." They're both good ones, aren't they? More to the point - "I don't know about Osama Bin Laden - frankly I don't think about him all that much." Yowza!

Answer 7

Okay, Is anyone in this thread over the age of 16, and does anyone in this thread have an IQ over 16? I am well over both...just curious

Answer 8

Just another one of his many lies.