Kim. I think you will find that Democrats like most people are not antiwar when war is required. Unlike, uncritical supporters of Bush and his Chicken Hawk cabinet, they are against the Iraq war because it was not required and because it is being handled very poorly.

The Bushies constantly argue that Bush is a "wartime president" and thet his "leadership" is required in these trying times. The Democrats rightly or wrongly think that Kerry's experince would make him a better wartime leader than Bush. Give Cheney and the other string pullers some credit for slyness. They knew that once this war started the US would have no choice but to try and finish it.

People have a right to question Bush's courage and military leadership. That is what he is campaigning on. How can his people parade him around in a flightsuit under a banner saying "Mission Accomplished" then say that it is dirty politics to question his right to wear that suit and to question his judgement for claiming that "Major combat has ended". losing 110 soldiers and marines,who knows how many Humvees and Iraqi policemen are not major combat, wahile fighting dudes in pickup trucks with Abrams tanks was major combat? I would think the major combat would be the combat in which the US takes significant casualties. What goes on in that man's brain?