"They're not just half-rooting for failure, they're trying to create failure in Iraq."
Exactly! As someone else has mentioned, this started weeks ago with the calls for withdrawal, as even more prominent democrats have stepped up to impart a sense of defeatism. With the statments from Murtha, Dean, Kerry, etc...and their media brethren, the Democrats are intentionally undermining this effort to both provoke attacks and discourage Iraqi turnout in the vote.
This is the most despicable thing I have ever seen; even if the Dems get their way, this country loses. It's bad enough when you can't trust these people when they're in power; but what they've done from the sidelines shows these people can't be trusted anywhere within government...and that includes their allies within the Executive Bureaucracy. These people need to be driven from office.