Keyes has said he supports the war as a valid front in the war on terrorism but that he opposes the retroactive rhetoric used by many Republicans to redefine it as a mission of "liberation" and a defacto exercises in nation building.
In other words, the war was a good thing - for OUR purposes - NOT for IRAQ'S purposes. which is what the "nation building" fallacy implies...that we are going about meddling in folks affairs "for there own good."
The liberation of Iraq, and the subsequent "nation building" came about as a consequence of taking action "for our own good".
What is wrong with pointing out the positive consequences of selfish actions (for our own good). And while we are at it, I am willing top make a gentleman's wager that we will "nation build" in Iraq for one tenth as long as we remained in Germany.
Iraq is a base, a beach head, and a target.