In spite of a preponderance the evidence that the Democrats are angry at President Bush for wrangling us into an unjustified war and want to take control of the Executive Branch of government in order to bring our troops back from Iraq and Afganistan, it is possible to reason that Bush-bashing is just flak, an explosive smoke screen intended to divert attention from their real goal which is not to undo what Bush has done but to undo what their real arch nemesis - Ronald Reagan - accomplished.
 
On the left lies socialism; on the right, capitalism. Reagon, the complete capitalist, upstaged the Left with its failed socialistic social engineering programs, using capitalism to end the Cold War, tear down the Iron Curtain, and encourage the world's communist leaders to compete economically instead of militarily. How embarrassing for the Left.

If the Left, the side that denies Terrorism and thinks that socialist tyrants such as Chavez and Ahmadinejad are not as bad as some say, occupy the Whitehouse in 2008, don't look for an immediate retreat from the Middle East. The Left would not mind if Bush loses the war, but could not itself tolerate failure. It will continue the war, blaming everything on Bush, while aiming its big guns on forwarding its socialist agenda.

The problem is: a move on the part of the US toward socialism will most likely serve to destabilize countries moving toward free economies and freer and more open societies, and further entrench in socialism and totalitarianism those too corrupt to do the hard work needed to follow Reagan's lead.

At 62, I have seen a lot of elections. I don't remember a Presidential race as important to our future as the one just ahead.