Take Courage as you should take the claims of the media with a grain of salt. The blue states are against the war in Iraq which is no real surprise. Iraq was probably a factor but not necessary the overwhelming one the media makes it. Of the Senate races the victories of the Democrats can be traced to other causes. Lincoln Chafee was against the war and still loss. He probably loss that race because the cultural conservatives voted against him. In Connecticut Lieberman who is pro Iraq war won by a land slide against anti Iraq war opponent. In both Ohio and Virginia low wages and high unemployment played a role. Missouri was probably the stem cell amendment because the candidates lost and the baby’s loss was roughly the same margin. In Montana the Abramoff scandal probably played a large roll. In Pennsylvania, Sen. Rick Santorum’s loss had voter anger going against him because of GOP dominated state politicians giving themselves a raise and his support of the RINO Arlen Specter in 2004. Other factors are that conservatives are angry about Republican unfaithfulness and so the conservatives did not vote or voted against them in order to punish them

The details the media forgets to mention are very interesting.

I do not know enough about the House losses to say why the occurred but I am not taking the anti war media’s over generalization and the reason.

That is my opinion.

I can’t demonstrate that any more than you can demonstrate that it won’t.

Ok, I’ll restate. Can you demonstrate that that is what the Democrats intend to do?

look what they did to Liberman for suggesting that there be a orderly pull out.

I’m sure they also noticed that he won.

If we just leave, then the job is not done. To sacrifice so much and then see the job go unfinished, is probably the most disheartening thing that could happen to a person.

No doubt, but can you or he demonstrate that that will happen? Sure, the Dems beat the Republicans over the head with the war, but very few of them were ever foolish enough to suggest that they will pull us out early.

That’s why the Republicans always countered with “they don’t have a plan, just criticism.” It’s largely true. Give the Dems a little credit. They know that if they pull out of Iraq and it descends into a bloody civil war, they won’t sniff power again for at least a decade.

Today, every single soldier clearly understands that we are now on the path of leaving Iraq.

Do you mean to say that we weren’t previously on the path of leaving Iraq?

The play has always been to “stay in Iraq as long as we are needed, and not a day longer.” – Bush