As I recall, Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL), prior even to the 2000 election, nor President Clinton, objected to Iraq-like nation building for real by the USA in say Kosovo, but it then happened same appeared to represent a non-Conservative position "mere" al-Qaeda attacks on the WTC, USS Cole, and so forth were not worth doing away with Sanctuary Cities or so much as divising a way to merely track Qaedan type terror money and players; however, again, Kosovo actions were of import to Clinton, Durbin, and others...including then calling for military removal of Saddam Hussein by the USA military and perhaps so doing in Darfur; once it appeared the "not worth tracking" al-Qaeda would hit the USA proper just because say Bush WAS going to Iraq anyway and merely hypothezing what if Hussein were fooling Hans Blix about WMD to boot, suddenly it seems non-Conservatives found acting amid Qaedan threats was "rash". At least, now we're to forget Iraq as part of a onetime pastiche devised under Clinton to remove totalitarians whether or not they have, had, or pursue WMD; far more even U.N. called for reasons for removing Hussein had accrued before Bush came along and can be recalled via reading at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021002-2.html  .
 
Today, as Jimmy Carter is again reported on USA MSM to be railing at Darfur's leadership and calling for USA military action against same, an Obama campaign PSA came into my within email; it's so lengthy that by itself it can't pass spam meters, but may be viewed currently at http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/judgment.
 
This PSA further links to Obama saying he doesn't oppose USA defense or think most folks aren't patriots, he just thinks Iraq is a dumb war and thus one presumes Iraqis don't warrant liberation, and to protect America and defeat al-Qaeda we need to refocus all military some other way; obviously, it would be tricky to say why Durbin wasn't dumb under Clinton re Iraq, or  why it's dumb for anyone to even have been a USA soldier in Iraq...maybe these sophisticated re-deployers mean only an idiot would think they can do anything or go anywhere al-Qaeda doesn't approve of...Senator Obama recently also held that Qaeda was not involved in 911, any more than were airplanes, so how can you even suspect he or non-Conservatives or their craven admirers want al-Qaeda left alone?
 
To reiterate, I perceive that it's false hope, to Iraqis, the USA, Darfur, or anywhere else, to defund Iraq and defense generally just to push Bush to fund SCHIP whether or not tobacco use already almost non-existant produces promised funding; nobody should be faced with a choice of either highly paid officials, public-owned housing, and public-run healthcare before anything else is ever planned long-range for community developments, or having a military at all. It also doesn't seem to make sense to further say in any event, we'll just have to stay out of the way or appease any squawkbox foreign mischief makers, decide town by town who's critical enough to a workforce or appeasement diplomacy to warrant collectivized benefits at all, and imply that all here must be inferred as likely criminal aliens, terror supporters or ala Bush/Iraq terror inviters, or both.
 
I continue to support President Bush in his decisions re Iraq. And as to further innuendo over the years Bush is a Sunni-siding civil war mercenary just out to help the Saudi Royal Family, well, Saudis have owned Citicorp and also had the same relationships with Democrats across the USA since Clinton, and a look at recent financial tickers yields as the non-Conservative agenda for America continues to expand even Citigroup forecasts fourth qtr 2007 losses of 60% due to pre-collectivized housing subprime loan situations. 
 
Notice too that war tax or not, some just don't support the military or commercial development at all, which is why they needn't talk about job and economic growth in their vision; as to a war tax, I think it could be called a defense tax, and I would pay it for advancing the self-determined free trade populations of the USA and world in the traditional sovereign yet allied sense of diversity of proud nations.

Beats trying to pretend calling for Iraq partition is somehow spitting in bin Laden's eye as spitters furiously demand complete retraction from Laden once said not to go.