What Happened To The Iraq War Issue?

I remember a time when the War In Iraq was treated as a separate war in the greater Global War On Terror. Naturally, those of us that were not playing political football with our troops knew this simply was not true. However, during the electioneering of 2005 through 2006, all we heard from the leftist politicians and the leftists they catered and pandered to was Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, and Iraq. Now, one has to practically knock them to the ground, pin them down and begin extracting teeth with a pair of needle nose pliers to get them to talk about Iraq. All of a sudden, nearly out of the blue, if they do talk about the GWOT, somehow the conversation turns to Afghanistan. The reason(s) is(are) clear as to The Why that is. (read the rest)