I'd say it's an even simpler agenda. Dems know that the situation will turn around eventually... they just want one of their own on the throne when it happens so they can point and say, "See? If it hadn't been for us and the huge difference we made, it would have been a disaster!"


>Forget the polls: Common sense dictates that our troops should leave only when local forces can stabilize the region. I don't understand this move to dictate a date for withdrawal. Makes no sense; unless, of course, you are so anti-war and anti-Bush that you'd rather see a nonsensical retreat than to see the mission carried out to it's end.