With the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal, the sparring over Florida and Michigan delegates and various name-calling in the Democratic presidential race, it’s easy to see how the war in Iraq falls off the table as a campaign issue for periods of time.

But the better question, some observers believe, is why the war in Iraq is still an issue at all. The answer to that prompted the cartoon below …

NOTE: This was created by and is property of journalist and cartoonist Andrew Wahl. Visit his blog, Off the Wahl, for many more great ones.

We laugh, but the stark reality is that unless the Democrats can write better tales than this, the John McCain campaign platform will win out.