You Call This Nation Building?

In a post early this morning at B4B, Jettison states that liberal claims that Bush flip-flopped on Nation Building are false. He uses a quote, taken from a Bush campaign speech in Tennessee, quoted on the DNC site:

In a campaign rally in Tennessee, then-Presidential candidate Bush criticized the Clinton administration for using the military in nation-building missions. Bush said, "I'm worried about an opponent who uses nation-building and the military in the same sentence. See, our view of the military is for our military to be properly prepared to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place."

Jettison then uses another Bush quote from Tim Russert's show that basically re-states the above with emphasis on the military being prepared as a deterrent to war.

I'm not sure exactly how showing that Bush twice rejected the notion that the military should or even could be used effectively in nation building and then starts two wars in the Middle East with the logical result being the need to conduct nation building shows anything other than a flip-flop. However, I'm not really interested in the "flip-flop" question; I actually believe that a well considered position on a subject can change with new information. If someone on either side of the political spectrum wants to call that "flip-flopping" then they are fools.

No, what amazes me is the incredible irony in the following statement by Jettison:

What Bush is saying is that he isn't opposed to the idea of nation-building, he just thinks when we do it, we should it do it right.

Do you mean to tell me that Jettison believes that what is happening in Afghanistan and Iraq right now is nation building done right?

Really?

And don't even get me started on this, from Bush:

"See, our view of the military is for our military to be properly prepared to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place."