That's one of the dumber things I've heard here. We needed to occupy Iraq from Day One. I have no problem with the term and Bush shouldn't either. Because he was swayed by politics and did not want to appear to occupy Iraq, it hurt us. We OCCUPIED Germany and Japan after WWII. That you're scared of the term suggests that you're just another RINO running scared from Democrats. See, I can play that game too.
I'm not "scared" of the term. I just recognize where you got it from - the left.
Your accusation that Bush was swayed by "politics" regarding Iraq is just silly, and not one bit conservative, as I highly suspect you are not. If he had been playing politically and not strategically and defensively, he would have pulled out of Iraq as the left and many hapless Americans wanted him to (I'm sure you're part of that crowd). But since he wanted to win and keep us safe rather than play politics, he stayed the course, against the advice of guys like Obama (and you?), who wanted us to lose, we ended up winning and Iraq is free.
Game over, FTJM. Feel free to play your games somewhere else.