Is The Iraq War a Determining Factor in the 2008 Presidential Elections?

I would love to never have to loose another friend or have to go over there. But in all honesty this is not going to end any time soon. The candidates so far haven't really touched on the subject but I feel they will say what wants to be heard.I personally do not like any of the candidates, so I will have to do some more researching on them. Once election is over all the promises they made go right out the window.

I think the war is a very important factor because a lot of people want to hear from the new candiates what they ae going to do about the war. 50% wants to end and the other 50% want continue. So what ever choices the candidates make, they will lose the other voters I guess. The war does take too long and as long as americans are there haters will continue to bomb buildings. We have no good solution for this one because both sides don't want to give up.

While it will still play a part in some votes, the Iraq War has largely been played out in the political arena. Realizing now, based on statistics from Baghdad, that the surge is working and that our troops will be there for a while. Other issues such as the economy and immigration are more prominent than the Iraq war. It is not a deciding factor in my voting as I realize that no matter who is elected our troops will still be there and there isn't anything that a President alone can do. Removing our troops will require congressional action, Iraqi governmental action, and even international action.

AS A U.S. MARINE I SAY NO !!!! MY OWN THOUGHT WAS WE AS USUAL DIDN'T GO IN STRONG ENOUGH AND IT'S STILL GOING ON,NOW YOU HAVE THESE SENATORS AND SUCH NO-ONE EVER HEARD OF TRYING TO RUN OUR COUNTRY,AND THE ONE'S THAT DESERVE TO GET ELECTED PROBABLY WON'T BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE WILL VOTE FOR THESE UN-KNOWN'S IT'S A JOKE.I THINK MOST PEOPLE WHETHER THEY ADMIT IT OR NOT HAVE AS IN THE VIET-NAM WAR HAVE FORGOTTEN WHY WE WENT OVER BECAUSE IT'S TAKING SO LONG TO GET DONE.LET'S STOP ALL THE B.S. THE REASON WE ARE THERE IS "OIL" PERIOD.DO PEOPLE REALLY THINK WE WOULD LET COUNTRIES LIKE IRAN HAVE NUKES IF IT WASN'T IN SOME WAY IN OUR BENEFIT.AND THE MOST AMAZING THING IS WHOEVER IS PRESIDENT WILL GET NOTHING DONE IF CONGRESS DOESN'T PASS THE BILLS AND WORK THE HOURS THEY SHOULD.ps.we paid 147.63 for a hammer last week or should i say the taxpayers did.

As an outside observer of world events as well as the coming US Presidential elections, I would think that the Iraq War that the US and her UN allies championed in 2003 will have a bearing on the Republican's chances at the next election. President Bush had asserted that Iraq was in possession of weapons of mass destruction and that the war was necessary for the protection of the United States. Whether that was really Bush's agenda was questionable, and I personally feel that the whole issue was about the control of middle-east oil. No WMD were eventually found, but the war has dragged on longer than anticipated and casualties have been mounting. More and more US parents have lost their sons and daughters in a war where the parents probably feel their children have no real business to be involved in and give of their lives. The Iraq campaign is fraud with complications, and one wonders if US troops can really pull out sooner (rather than later) with Iraq's internal conflicts and the Middle-East situation so unstable. No doubt the failure to end the war in Iraq will be exploited by the opposition to gain leverage in any political campaign. The war on Iraq had also drained a significant amount of US resources which could otherwise have been channeled to fund domestic programmes to benefit US citizens. At home, there are grouses about expensive health care, inadequate health insurances, poverty, lack of minimum welfare, the subprime housing issue and foreclosures, as well as recession fears lurking around. I think people are wondering if President Bush is concentrating too much on his foreign policy vis-a-vis doing more to address domestic issues at hand. Since Bush's re-election at end-2004, Bush had received increasing criticism. He had high domestic rating immediately after 9/11, but his disapproval rating had since been climbing as the Iraq war dragged on and things are not looking up on the domestic front. So I would say that the Iraq War will in some way influence the outcome of the 2008 Presidential Elections scheduled in Nov 2008.

The Republican are the cause of all this problem, when they come there is war, I think any president coming in should not withdraw the troops from Irag because if they do it will be grevious not only there but here in America. So i think they should finish what they have a started and Fish out does behind it. I think It be a deciding factor for me.