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.
I don't like to call it the WOT and I agree with certain aspects of it like trying to chase down Al Queda and other such groups. I don't think Iraq is part of the WOT or a good idea in such a fight.
But your exactley right. The GOP is not the "war" party. The Democrats can claim that title with far more justification than us. If a Dean or Kerry or Hillary (or worst of all Strangelove Clarke) were to become President the war would get worse in Iraq and may even expand to another country. Don't believe the oppurtunistic rhetoric they use now and the ocassional peeps against the war.