"Let's hear DETAILED and SPECIFIC criticisms of this administration and their corrupt decisions. Not general complaints which is all I've been reading so far, including your complaints above".
TT/A1233,
As a candidate for the presidency in 2000, George W. Bush insisted that, if elected, he would not allow U.S. military forces to engage in "nation building."
Now that we have blasted Iraq to save it (does that have a familiar ring?), Bush is in the business of nation building as U.S. military forces struggle to put that broken nation back together.
Nation building in Iraq means not only getting the water and electrical supply going and arranging garbage collections.
It also means writing a new constitution and creating a government. In the meantime, U.S. troops are performing basic police functions like directing traffic
Bush's pledge to avoid nation building came during a debate with Democrat Al Gore at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., on Oct. 11, 2000. It was their second debate of the election campaign.
At that debate Bush recalled that the U.S. humanitarian mission in Somalia -- begun by his father, President George H.W. Bush -- had "changed into a nation-building mission, and that's where the mission went wrong."
Bush also pledged during the same debate to be "humble" in his foreign policy and not appear to be throwing our superpower weight around.
As the U.S. attack on Iraq shows, it's difficult being humble. When the United States could not get its way before the U.N. Security Council, Bush barged ahead on his own, careful to at least pay lip service to British Prime Minister Tony Blair so that the White House could always been seen to be acting in the name of a "coalition," such as it was.
No matter how the president's foreign policy is viewed by Americans or others around the world, the word "humble" couldn't possibly fit.