I don't believe the polls are worth this arguement....we vote for a national leader every four years (thanks again founding fathers for having wisdom to do this!)which is a good number of years for the public to judge a president and his agenda.
We don't vote in a new leader after every poll and we don't wage a war by polling for best strategy idea, thank goodness!
I don't know about your point about waging war by polling for best strategy...
I think that is what Clinton did...in both Iraq, and in Kosovo....and in both cases, he polled (IMHO) that he "needed" a war as a distraction, but couldn't handle the negativity of casualties, so he just waged a couple of "air wars"....
Are we not still in Kosovo...and how much did his bombing runs do to stop Saddam???
I think President Bush is doing just the opposite...and that is what is making Chrissy Matthews, the dems and others crazy....that he ISN'T looking to his "falling numbers" to decide when to get out of Iraq...