Sallies defending and protecting America from her enemies is more than a matter of semantics, so it seems a little silly, to all of a sudden, not to refer to terrorists as terrorists.

    Arvin it like you said, "The Liberals were not so much against Bush because of Iraq, its more, because he was a pro-life President," and that stuck in their craw: using the war to cast dispersion.  Now geography shows that Iraq is more of a prominent location, and if controlled by terrorists, would be much worse for liberty; still, both Iraq and Afghanistan should enjoy terror free countries.