[PogySailor]

Is this really a sentiment that mainstream Democrats want to support and echo?

Have you not been paying attention for the last three years John? Except for a very brief period following 9/11/01, the Democrats and the Partisan Media have been saying just that.

[kcvl]

"Last year Clarke's best friend, Rand Beers, quit as the White House's counterterrorism chief after complaining — over glasses of wine on Clarke's front porch — about the wrong-headedness of Bush's plan to invade Iraq. Beers is now a principal foreign-policy adviser to [Democratic candidate John] Kerry."