What I find amazing about this entire issue is that with the Liberal DemonRATs now saying that we cannot possibly turn over the ownership of the ports management company to a UAE company because we are at war and our security is paramount, they are admitting the WOT is real! I have been listening to the loony left liberals and the Dems say there really isn't any war, and Iraq had no connection with 911, never attacked us (notwithstanding the constant firing at our aircraft in the no-fly zone), yada, yada. Seems like Bush and Rove have trapped them again - they are now on record there really is a WOT.
I think it's stretching credibility a bit to argue that this was an elaborate plot to get the Democrats on record as admitting that the War on Terror exists.
While I've heard plenty of arguments from the left as to why we shouldn't be in this conflict and could have avoided it, I don't think many mainstream Democrats would argue that the WOT isn't real. Kerry mentioned the WOT all the time during his campaign, after all.