Its not debatable, not a grey area.
The POTUS and his PR machine if they were doing even a half assed job would have the socilaists terrified to even suggest that Iraq was not the WOT.
Instead Kerry RAN on this black propganda and the geniuses at the RNC couldn't even get Kerry on the record as to whether he considered Saddam Hussein to be a terrorist.
Inexcusable, and very dangerous. The homefront is not to be ignored, there are domestic enemies allied with the ragheads to bring the GOP government down.
GWB is derelict in fighting the propaganda war at home.
Sorry, on this point I disagree with you...I think the Bush Administration..and Bush personally, have been saying it since just after 9/11...
BUT, closed minds don't care.