Democrats should get tougher on the Iraq war on the fifth year anniversary of the “Mission Accomplished” banner, write the bloggers at Daily Kos. BarbinMD urges the Democratic presidential candidates to focus on getting troops out of Iraq, noting that they are preoccupied with gas prices and working-class voters. Kagro X explains the three-part process through which House Democrats plan to bring a war spending bill to the House floor. Democratic leaders believe the parliamentary procedures will give liberals and centrists cover against Republican attacks, but Kagro X wonders why Democrats use it for the Iraq spending measure and not to block the White House-requested surveillance bill.