"how that alone could fuel so much unwarranted obsession with the issue. I still feel like I'm missing something."
You are....
Like the HUGE amounts of foriegn cash rolling into Democrat 527's like MoveOn....
Will NONE dare call this BS treason?
Or have we lost our national will in the name of some global socialist utopia?
Good point, but that explanation just raises a new question, i.e.:
Why do the Moveon people (&c) care so much that we have a military presence in Iraq? so much that they'll donate millions to candidates who promise/talk about ending it?