Democrats and the Public Want to Cut and Run?

Snow was on the Sunday morning programs putting in a plug for the war and answering stupid questions:

President Bush understands there is growing U.S. concern over his handling of the
Iraq war but will not rely on polls to determine when to withdraw troops, his spokesman said Sunday.

"The president understands how a war can wear on a nation," White House press secretary Tony Snow said. "Whatever the bleakness is, whatever the facts are on the ground, you figure out how to win. You can't do that by reading polls."

"Most people realize simply pulling out would be an absolute unmitigated disaster," Snow said.

Meanwhile, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (news, bio, voting record) of California said she and other Democrats would introduce a resolution this week calling for a phased withdrawal, noting that Bush signed a defense bill last year calling for that in 2006.

"Three years and three months into the war, with all of the losses, the insurgency, the burgeoning civil war that's taking place, an open-ended time commitment is no longer sustainable," she said.

"We want to see an end to this thing. We want to transition the mission. That isn't cutting and running," Feinstein said on CNN's "Late Edition."

Who in their right mind would think that the president should listen to polls and then lead. Are the polls even accurate? This is presumed in all of these questions, but is it?

And I think it's funny that the Democrats are on the defensive over the charge of wanting to cut and run.

And then there's this:

Sen. Joseph Biden (news, bio, voting record), D-Del., said he believes the American people are frustrated by the Bush administration's failure to articulate a clear strategy for winning in Iraq. Benchmarks and timetables for a withdrawal are needed to gauge progress and limit U.S. casualties, he said.

"If I had known the president was going to be this incompetent in his administration, I would not have given him the authority" to go to war, said Biden, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

I didn't know that Biden had the power to give the President of the United States authority to go to war. Wow! He is a really powerful and influential man.