I hope he is Republican. However, I think he would be (incorrectly) but never the less tainted with the so called Iraq failure.
Nobody knows more about what is going on at street level in Iraq and Afghanistan, than General Abizaid. If we are going to let ourselved be howled down by a bunch of hairless apes posing as "news media", then we deserve to succumb to the worldwide caliphate.
He gets his intelligence from the best source possible - he reads and speaks Arabic, and communicates on a daily basis with the Iraqis at all levels. No member of the Congress, and very few of the Bush Administration, can say the same.