No, the war in Iraq is costing about $1 billion a week.. THat's definitely an impediment to conservative agenda such as balancing the budget and cutting taxes, or even extending the "temporary" tax cuts. Also, the war in Iraq isn't part of a war against "Muslim terrorists," - or at least didn't start that way. Saddam was a secular dictator who had the fundamentalists brutally squashed. The chief of the Muslim terrorists is Osama, and we seem to have lost interest in him.