Reply #11: Not quite. Both Bushes were catalysts, but

[Lone Pawn]

the wars were actually started by a group of liberals who advocated an aggressive, interventionist foreign policy against the USSR. They called themselves paleoliberals at first, to distinguish themselves from the liberals of the Great Society. They soon found intellectual alliance with centrist conservatives disaffected with the isolationism rampant in the GOP. They then merged and formed the neoconservative movement. Actually, ironically, you can trace the neocon movement back to the pro-war liberals in WWII. But anyway, proto-neocons--MacNamara is a good example--started Vietnam, and neocons started Iraq. Bushes just happened to be there.