U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd has competition for re-election, according to AP:

State Republican Party Treasurer Hiram Lewis IV announced Saturday he planned to seek his party's nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd in 2006.

Lewis, an Army National Guard captain who served in Iraq, picked the second anniversary of the fall of Baghdad to announce his plans.

A good bet would be that we see a lot of new leaders emerging from trenches in Afghanistan and Iraq in the next few years, like we've seen after other wars.