I think the Dems have a problem....
The new storyline appears to be that the Dems would have been leading cavalry charges across the Afghanistan plains were it not for the "distraction" that Bush created in Iraq. That won't fool anyone who knows even the bare basics about either the war or the Democrats but then it isn't intended to. The hope is that it will fool enough of the ignorant to get their boy into office.
That's really the key to it. Although Bambi's going to make it sound like it, he isn't forming a foreign policy here, he's forming a campaign platform. Once he's in the whole thing is renegotiable.