Everything I know about Iraq I learned about reading everything she wrote.

has taken a hit from both the ongoing things in Iraq and what happened with Katrina.

I guess probably what I remember most is just before he went to Iraq, he was here, his final Sunday he was in church,

Primary electorates tend to be more extreme electorates and a vote like Iraq, that was popular and centrist at the time, is going to be a lot less popular in the primary.

The administration seems like it's preoccupied with a lot of other issues from Iraq (to Hurricane) Katrina, the economy.

Certainly the violence in Iraq has been much lower than it might have been, because there's been a fair deal of restraint among Shiite leaders. And that might end now - they may feel the need to really go after the Sunni Arabs as a diversion.