It isn't. Whatever gains there have been could be fleeting, our own intelligence community is preparing to tell us. http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20081007/wl_mcclatchy/3066066

Our mission of finding WMDs and toppling the Hussein regime was accomplished YEARS ago. It is time that we expose the Iraq War for what it is - A WASTE OF MONEY. The Obama campaign needs to tell ALL of the reasons it is time to leave Iraq - one of which is money.
Iraq is costing the tax payer billions of dollars a month and Americans are losing their lives needlessly.

We should really focus some time toward pointing out the failures and lies of the McCain campaign. This is what they have been doing all the while, and we have just sat by, I agree that we shouldn't focus on failures in this campaign but rather the policies, but we can't risk it this year, 3 years of a republican will destroy our country for good.

When Gov Palin gave her sermon calling the Iraq War "God's will" she was essentially waging a holy war. Her dangerous and reckless rants are fodder for extremists to use against us. I think Obama should point out her irresponsible position and force the McCain campaign to do damage control.

Most Americans have no sense of the value of a trillion or even a billion dollars - why would they? They're struggling to get by. They know the cost of the Iraq war has hurt them, but no one has made it clear how much.