And Republican's didn't campaign against FDR in 44? You know, we're at war, get behind the President? Or how about in '52 or '68?
NO one has suggested suspending elections or campaigns!...but the amount of hand wringing over a very successful operation as far as casualties sustained and that things don't go as fast, mistake free and predictably as microwave cooking of a frozen dinner does, gets puzzling for some of us that know about history and war...
There have been successes...I read about them here..I don't see them on TV. We are at the brink of winning...not the brink of losing..but will have to be there for their security for some time.
Of course the Republicans campaigned agaist FDR but I strongly doubt that any of them were assaulting him for bringing us into a fictious war or for the literally hundreds of thousands of men who had already died by that time. I doubt it was a campaign issue in 1944.
And, BTW, the problem isn't that the Democrats are campaigning against the President, the problem is that much of the country seems to have lost the taste for war after only a few (relatively) people have died and after only a few (relatively) idiotic crimes committed by prison guards.
The guards who participated in the prison scandal are being and will continue to be prosecuted and many, many more soldiers will die; but the number pales in comparison to the number of deaths we will experience if we fail in Iraq.
The need for steadfastness is upon us. It is time for all Americans to stiffen up their backbone and not fall in the face of mounting pressure. 76,000....76,000