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Hardly the case.  It is certainly the picture that the press paints for you to see, but conservatives support this action.  The republicans who the press highlights as deserting the war effort are RINO's and are republicans only because they couldn't get elected in thier districts as democrats.

The other sort are more accurately called moderates than neo cons. 

You talk as if you believe bush is a true conservative.  Is that the impression that you are under?  Aside from that, war tactics shouldn't be confused with societal change.  How many would saddam have killed following the slow and deliberate standard?

I didn't say it was a consequence, I simply said that the differences became obvious for the first time during the clinton years.

There is always some motive for treaties.  My point was that in the case of Kuwait, it wasn't oil because at the time the treaties were enacted, Kuwait was not a wealthy nation.

Actually they weren't kicking and screaming.  Two nuclear weapons had knocked the kick and the scream out of them.  They became what we told them to become because they didn't want a third dropped on them.  That qualifies as kicking and screaming.