Have you noticed the usual election year demagoguery coming from the Republicans? They have nothing to tout as an achievement during the last six years so they are once again dividing America by using wedge issues. They attack democrats and any other anti-war person as unpatriotic cowards. The reality is that they are the cowards for hiding behind the skirts of dead soldier’s mothers and dishonest pre-emptive war. These rightwing chicken-hawks want to act like macho tough guys but in reality they are only willing to have other people’s kids die for their misguided war folly. We all know after the election Bush will bring most of the troop’s home because it is obvious that we are encouraging more terrorist and have created a Civil War in Iraq rather than discouraging it. To say that Iraq is becoming a democracy is pathetically dishonest. Civil War is not democracy and the violence has only increased. We have made life worse for the Iraqi’s, not better. Every time we kill or capture a Saddam or Al Qaeda member we are told that we have turned the corner but they keep multiplying. For every one we kill, ten more take up arms. We are not liberators. We are occupiers and they want us out of their country. Bush will not admit failure by leaving Iraq before the election this year but wait until next year. The back peddling will begin. He knows the war has bankrupted our country, demoralized the military and 70% of the public is against it. He and his fundamentalist republican Taliban will cut and run then declare mission accomplished again. Don’t be fooled by their swagger. They are playing the same old corrupt Rovian/McCarthyistic game of dividing the country and attacking anyone they disagree with as un-American and un-patriotic. It is a lie just like their policies and the reasons for this war. They have failed the public trust.