The Ft. Dix arrests are proof that there is a real, global war on terror and it's here as well as there. When they care more about re-election than national security, it's over. There are domestic issues that can be put on the back burner but national security is not one of them.
If we don't get out troops out of harm's way in Iraq, the Democrats will win HUGE in 2008, and everything you say won't matter anyway.