define the battlezone.

Which is exactly what you are doing.

The goppers lost the election because of Iraq, yes but part of that has been the constant lies the President put forth as the reason we diverted our military front from Afganistan to Iraq. The constant lies.

That and rampant uncheck GOP corruption starting with Jack Abramoff and sweet little Jesus lovin' Jack Reed who, lied to the Indians, and stole their money and used to to fund the GOP campaign by filtering the money through the Dept of theh Interior.

Plus the flagrant abuse of earmarks and pork barrel spending that allowed Duke Cunningham to steal tax payers money to buy some stuff and give special favors to military contracters.

Plus the abuse of the public trust by NOT honoring the residents of New Orleans.

Plus the ugly expensive medicare program.

Plus no child left behind that is underfunded and a ridiculous crony contract to rewrite school books and give a special contract to the 'right' kind of bookrighters.

Plus the enormous waste of billions and billions of tax payer dollars to private contracters in New Orleans and IRaq.

Plus the erosion of civil liberties, habeous corpus.

So it is about Iraq, yes......... but in the larger context of rampant bullying and exortion of the public trust by members of Congress who say the are Republicans.

Plus the GOP inflated housing market, cause the GOP just doesn't do regulation and now the world markets see a decline in the dollar and a credit crunch.

The biggest failure for democrats, is that no one democratic leader has taken the initiative to explain that once we are in this godawful mess in IRaq, fighting a war for the children of Israel, that is nearly impossible to get out, especially after the we have used billions of tax payer dollars to turn a killers residence into the US Embassy in Iraq, the largest in the world, plus the 14 military bases.

Al Queda in Iraq......... it is so cool to say that now, if you are in the military.

So the question now becomes would you rather have a reasonable democrat who believes in consultation with the world to help solve problems like we see in Iran and Pakistan.

Or would you rather have a neanderthal Republican who says my bombs are twice as big as yours, and I will triple the size of Gitmo.

anyone who denies that the Democrats have been claiming that the main reason they were elected in 2006 was the Iraq War and getting us out is sadly mistaken. 

ELECTION 2006
America's referendum on war
Pelosi's countdown: She ticks off a list of changes, including a new Iraq strategy

Yet during the interview, she asserted that discontent over the war is the No. 1 issue driving the election.

"This election is about Iraq,'' said Pelosi, a consistent war
opponent who has said her failure to prevent the United States from
going to war in 2003 is her greatest disappointment in public life.

"If indeed it turns out the way that people expect it to turn
out, the American people will have spoken, and they will have rejected
the course of action the president is on."

If they win, Democrats will immediately reach out to Bush to
find a bipartisan way to begin redeploying troops "outside of Iraq,"
Pelosi said. They will also apply pressure to disarm the militias,
amend the Iraqi constitution and engage in diplomacy in the region.

"A Democratic victory would be in furtherance of reaching that
goal. Absent a Democratic victory, we'll be there for the next 10
years,'' Pelosi said.

Reid, Pelosi Call On President To Listen To The Will Of The American People On Iraq :

Last November, the American people overwhelmingly made clear their desire to bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end.

Reid And Pelosi Renew Call For President To Work With Congress On Changing Course In Iraq

The American people want the President and the Congress to work together to bring a responsible end to the war in Iraq.

Congress Puts Its Marker on Iraq War, but How Big?

On Friday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her new Democratic leadership
overcame deep divisions in their caucus to hand Bush the strongest
rebuff on the war of his presidency. "The American people do not
support a war without end and neither should this Congress," said
Speaker Pelosi, as she closed out the debate on redeploying US combat troops from Iraq by Sept. 1, 2008.

Here's one from Biden:

Statement on Rumsfeld's Resignation, President's Press Conference and Iraq

Listening to the President today, I believe he got the message that this election was about Iraq.

The biggest mistake the dems make in a debate is letting the R's frame it.