Well, at the risk of turning this into a political discussion, I will say that he's killing terrorists in Iraq instead of waiting for them to kill us over here. If Clinton were in office, how many 9/11s might we have suffered before he took action?
I am certainly up for conquering the GC. It would be a massive series of threads filled with espionage, titannic fleet engagements, base delta zeros, civilian casualties, etc etc etc - a massive e amount of space to be annexed by the Empire that is already being bled by war, making a Rebellion easier to start as we would be spread thin.