Whacking Zarqawi must have really hit a nerve with the RATS. They're not even bothering to hide the fact they're basing all their hopes for the midterms on our defeat in Iraq. I knew their hopes for winning back the House in November were slim, at best. But now they're admitting what the GOP was saying all along: "They're not serious about foreign policy or defense". Nancy can go ahead and cancel those new drapes for the Speaker's office.
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I think you're right about Zarqawi being the final straw, this has been building up since the first Iraqi election. Things have been progressively getting better since then and I believe they've run out of phony excuses. They can say things are getting worse when in actuality they are getting better only so long.