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Several candidates on the Democrat side don't believe that there's a Global War on Terror, including top-tier candidate John Edwards. From Ben Smith's Blog on the Politico:

This is a quite big deal that most of us totally missed last night: John Edwards doesn't believe there's a "global war on terror," at least not in the simple-show-of-hands sense.

This is something a lot of Democrats say privately -- and something mainstream pols everywhere else in the world say publicly -- but it contests a Bush administration premise in a way very few American politicians have been comfortable in the last five and a half years.

Smith blogs about the Democrats on that site, and it looks like even he is a bit uncomfortable with Edwards' lack of recognition. The only reason I can think of anyone not believing there's a Global War on Terror is because they'd prefer for it to be called a Global War on Islamofascists. I doubt that's what Edwards was thinking.