> He has taken Bush to task repeatedly for lying about his position on "nation building"
Contrary to the popular anti-Bush talking point, Bush never said in 2000 that if the US goes to war against a foreign enemy, the US should never invade and occupy that enemy. Bush was referring to "peacekeeping" operations in Somalia and Haiti when he criticized "nation building."
I'm absolutely not anti-Bush but "peacekeeping" much better describes our current activities in Iraq than "war fighting". Our Administration is being hypocritical and disingenuous in this regard. We are spending lives and unbelievable amounts of treasure "nation building" and there is no rhetorical way around it. We are not operating in our self-interest and we are doing what we did in Somalia and Haiti on a much larger (read worse) scale. Hence the erosion in our public support.