If you vote Democrat

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As a piece of SF, from a purely artistic point of view, it's not too bad.
From the plausability standpoint, I have read second-graders essays (if you can call them that) that were more logical and coherent. Allow me to elaborate.

I think MRD (bless him), as usual, almost nailed it: what on earth does retreating from Iraq have to do with nukes ? Or with NK and/or Iran ?

The nukes were built in NK and Iran. If anything, the US was being sidetracked with the pointless war in Iraq, and distracted from the REAL threats, which were NK and Iran. The very fact that US was focusing on Iraq so much allowed NK and Iran to concoct this devilish plot undisturbed.

Moreover, by concentrating so many troops in Iraq - which is completely unrelated to Al-Qaeda, the US has had fewer resources to channel in the places where it could *really* fight Al-Qaeda: Afghanistan (which was, and is, indeed, a just and justified war), and Pakistan, which harbors and encourages terrorism. Instead, resources and energy were directed towards Iraq, which didn't bother Al-Qaeda in the least. While keeping the great Satan busy in Iraq, the true martyrs of Islam were allowed to prepare in peace for the beginning of Jihad.

Do I need to get even more pedantic, to nitpick and rip it to shreds a bit more?
What does the incompetence, or negligence, of some "junior analyst in the NSA" have to do with Democrats or Republicans ?

How about the unbelievable statement that the US would leave a few hundred of its citizens to be slaughtered without the slimmest intent of retaliation ?
Ooooh, let me guess, it must be those Democrats that will eat your babies, yes, they would leave all of you to perish in the name of world peace.

I'm sure I can come up with more, and also with an alternative scenario in which after x years of war, the number of American deaths has risen to large six figures, the draft has been instituted in order to compensate for the lack of willingness to fight a senseless war, waves of Americans are moving to Canada such that their children will not be killed in vain 10,000 miles away from home, etc, etc, etc...

edit: for typos