The "Defining Struggle"?

President Obama was just quoted as saying that health reform is the "defining struggle of this generation". Really? Does anyone remember 9/11/2001, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the tsunami that hit Thailand in 2004.

Those just three of the "struggles" we have faced on this planet in the last 8 years. A generation is usually defined as 18-25 years. Is the President really brash enough to say something like this? Did he really mean that revamping a system that is more healthy than not "the struggle of [a] generation"?

This seems to me like the same false rhetoric that Bush used to motivate Americans to go after Saddam Hussein, a person that at least posed a serious threat to humanity. It seems similar to the Bush rhetoric that Dems seemed to criticize unrelentingly for years.