Sorry, but Iraq has been debated to death, at the expense of other issues that both Parties ignored or failed to lead on.
When books are written on how Bush II had a failed Presidency, I think much will be made about how Bush became so fixated on “Evildoers” and Iraq that he neglected his other duties. And Congress so wrapped up in Iraq debate, and morals of war minutea that they failed to address a host of critical economic, financial, and trade matters. As well as neglecting urgent foreign policy issues outside the “WMD, evildoer, Iraq” matrix – as “unimportant”
Think of it as train engineer Dubya busy texting Iraq and “war on evildoers” messages and failing to spot signals a trainwreck was coming unless he started paying proper attention…
Think of Congress as a rail firm so obsessed over proper response to “terrahist!” threats to the rails and managing the Iraq railroad acquisition that they failed to ensure good domestic railroad operation and safety.
I hope that the debate ignores Capt. Peter Hesgeth’s question and any other on Iraq.
But unfortunately, and naturally, McCain will bring up the Surge yet again and Petraeus as his Personal God…If Obama is smart, he will let McCain talk away about Iraq and it’s noble freedom-loving people – as much as possible.
With voters now more concerned with the country’s future than they were the day after 9/11, the candidate that seems more interested in Iraq than their fellow American’s personal financial disasters, deep job and health care fears and the economy (and who should pay for getting us in this possible global Depression) – will lose 5-7 points right after the debate.
