No this isn't a flame.
Iraq and Afghanistan are both total messes and probably un-winnable.
If Kerry is elected he'll obviously have to address these messes one way or another. If he extracts the US at any point without having a clearly defined victory then 2008 will be all about "Bush was winning the wars but The Dems lost them" with the left countering by re-naming both wars Bush's War #1 and Bush's War #2.
What a mess.