Rove's plan for the midterms

NYT:

... Republicans began a new effort to use last week's events to turn the war to their political advantage after months of anxiety, and to sharpen attacks against Democrats. On Monday night, the president's top political strategist, Karl Rove, told supporters in New Hampshire that if the Democrats had their way, Iraq would fall to terrorists and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi would not have been killed.
"When it gets tough, and when it gets difficult, they fall back on that party's old pattern of cutting and running," Mr. Rove said at a state Republican Party gathering in Manchester.

They're going to choke on dust before they quit going to this well. The Iraq adventure is a lose/lose proposition at this point. The longer we stay, the more terrorists we recruit and train. The only thing that remains unanswered is the date-certain when the occupation will end. After which, the Iraqis will chase the terrorists out of Iraq and we'll have to try to track them to wherever they scatter -- something the next president will have to deal with.