You know what? I agree. I am totally wrong. This war in Iraq is going great. It is a big bonus for the GOP! The 200 billion we will spend every year on Iraq certainly makes the mere 40 bilion on the "Republican" Old Timers drug give away and medicare program seem like a bargain!
But we got this war! And "War" is "conservative" because at one point left wingers "protested" against war 30 years ago!
Never mind that Conservatives were the leading anti war adherents for the first 150 years of this nations history and even up until William Howard Taft and Calvin Coolidge.
Never mind that- TR, FDR, Kennedy- are the new heros of
"conservatism" today.
I reminded a leftist friend the other day (who maintains that the GOP is the "war party") about WWI (Wilson), WW2 (FDR), Korea (Truman), Vietnam (JFK and LBJ), and Kosovo (Clinton). Didn't want to hear it, of course.
Most conservatives aren't war-mongers -- we advocate war only when we see it as necessary for our survival as a nation. And although I know you don't agree, this (WOT) is one of those times.