Yesterday I was roundly criticized for suggesting that Iraq would be "behind us" by the 2006 elections. Obviously it will still be an "issue", since even Vietnam is still an issue after 30 years. What I was trying to suggest is that by year's end I think we will be out of or largely leaving Iraq, and so the landscape of the debate will be very different in the 2006 midterms. Dems should prepare for this. Here's why.
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