2008 US Presidential Elections: The Iraq War, Party Platforms and Social Polarization

The most important undertaking of the first George W. Bush administration was the war in Iraq; today, at the end of the second Bush administration, there is a growing consensus across the political spectrum that this war may be the president’s most disastrous problem. It is also important to notice that in 2001 presidential campaign, George W. Bush offered a new approch to foreign policy and expressed strong reservations about America’s undertaking nation building