Congratulations to all around here on a nice victory. This post is not meant to dampen your enthusiasm nor demean your victory, quite the contrary: just to support you in the fights that will start now.
Be ready for American deaths in Iraq to suddenly be a lot more publicized, with questions arising about what the Democrats, in power, are doing about it.
Be ready for stories about lack of body armor, lack of scrutiny in procurement cotnracts, lack of strategy, problems on the ground to suddenly become a lot visible and, again, ponderous words will be uttered about what the Democrats are doing (or not).
Be ready for the theme that Iraq is lost to become noticeably more explicit, as such, and the link made with the Democrats' victory this week.
Just because these claims are absurd and unbelievable does not mean that they will not be uttered. All of these would be called, rightly, concern trolls on dKos. But they will be proferred by the Republicans, by Bush (who will start claiming that Democrats are preventing him from waging a winning strategy), and repeated, as usual, by the hopeless MSM.
It's untrue, abject and par for the course. But it will happen. Are you ready for it? Are you ready to fight back? Right now? Will there be a coherent message to throw the blame back at the administration that waged (and fucked up) that war, and at the Republican Congress that blindly supported that policy throughout? Will it be made clear that the Democrats are not and were not in control of the executive branch or the Pentagon?
I expect there will be very little time to savour victory before the harsh realities of this political fight come back with a vengeance.