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I don't really want to get into some one-on-one bandying about with one-liners NCB, and I'm looking at a beautiful day outside - long story short, I'll probably be logged out pretty soon, etc. However, I don't really see how the Dems are any weaker on defense than the Repubs. That's a complicated discussion that's been covered, and is only tangentially related to this topic. I see this as less motivated by party affiliation, and more by incumbancy. Most people agree with the soundbite that "Saddam was a ruthless dictator," such that coming out in a strong way saying that his virtually assured guilty verdict is in any ways a bad thing runs the risk of some pretty bad publicity. As we don't typically engage in complex political discussions, but only in one-liners and tag shots, its just too open to being branded as an America-hating, freedom-fucking, pinko Islamofascist terrorist sympathizer to question this development. This is doubly so if you were a Repub or Dem in office for the past 4-6 years, and thus for many its part of their own record they would be pointing to.
For the non-incumbents, particulary Dems right now, with only one real "news day" prior to the election on Tuesday, I think they will have to decide which issues to hammer on. They've been building a consistent message about the corruption of the incumbent administration and the problematic position of having a legislative and executive branch bonded by party affiliation - to go off message now is inconsisent with the simplicity we like as American consumers of information. I'd expect some minor mention of this announcement in the context of criticisms about the Iraqi situation (I really don't like calling it a "war," since its not) - but I'd doubt that there will be singular focus on it. It's much more of a non-issue in context of all the crap that's been happening in the past several years.
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