Wrong. No George Bush never supported complete isolationism. George Bush never said all foreign intervention in the last 60 years was wrong. George Bush never said we were responsible for terrorism. Hillary Clinton is a stalwart on foreign policy compared to the naivete of Ron Paul.
George Bush said no scattering troops all over the globe and NO NATION BUILDING NUMEROUS times. Don’t try to re-write history. Anti-war was big with Republicans in 2000 after Yugoslavia and all the other shenanigans that Clintoon got us into.
During the 2000 campaign, George W. Bush argued against nation building and foreign military entanglements. In the second presidential debate, he said: "I'm not so sure the role of the United States is to go around the world and say, 'This is the way it's got to be.'"
The United States is currently involved in nation building in Iraq on a scale unseen since the years immediately following World War II.
During the 2000 election, Mr. Bush called for U.S. troops to be withdrawn from the NATO peacekeeping mission in the Balkans. His administration now cites such missions as an example of how America must "stay the course."
Drawing on the advice of Gen. Colin L. Powell, widely viewed as a potential secretary of state in a Bush administration, Bush is far more tentative about committing American troops and rules out their use for what he dismisses as nation building. “There may be some moments when we use our troops as peacekeepers, but not often,” he said in the final presidential debate. In the second debate he suggested a broader philosophical disagreement with Mr. Gore: “I’m not so sure the role of the United States is to go around the world and say, ‘This is the way it’s got to be.’”
Gore, on the other hand, has repeatedly portrayed himself as a man who has come to believe in vigorous American intervention abroad
During a debate with then-Vice President Al Gore on Oct. 11, 2000, in Winston-Salem, N.C., Bush said: “I don’t think our troops ought to be used for what’s called nation-building. . . . I think what we need to do is convince people who live in the lands they live in to build the nations. Maybe I’m missing something here. I mean, we’re going to have a kind of nation-building corps from America? Absolutely not.”
"I wouldn't have sent troops to Haiti," Bush said. "I didn't think it was a mission worthwhile. It was a nation-building mission. And it was not very successful. It cost us billions, a couple of billions of dollars, and I'm not so sure democracy is any better off in Haiti than it was before."
I could go on all night. Bush was the anti-war candidate in 2000. In the Republican primary AND in the general election.