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Not that this should come as surprise, but the results of the Take Back America straw poll were just announced, and a paltry 3 percent of the attendees to this annual gathering of progressive activists chose terrorism and national security as their most important issue. This ranked it in 7th place in the list of their priorities, behind the war in Iraq, health care, energy and global warming, the economy, education, and corruption in Washington. Some may counter that the 34 percent who identified Iraq as their leading issue could have cared about national security, but even if you combine participants' first and second choices, only 7 percent chose terrorism/national security. Liberals have accused conservatives of using the War on Terror as an excuse to invade Iraq, but now liberals are using withdrawal from Iraq as an excuse to retreat from the War on Terror.

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Education, Health Care, Iraq, Energy