"I don't know about your point about waging war by polling for best strategy..."
My point is that the constant critisism of the current strategy is all the libs have to offer. If a politician really believes s/he has a better battle strategy, then share it with the administration.
"I think that is what Clinton did...in both Iraq, and in Kosovo...."
Didn't Clinton use polls for everything? He based his foriegn & domestic policy on how the poll winds blew...polls told him where to take his vacations......what a mess he was & is!
Oh...okay, I understand your point now...and I agree.
If the dems could get a clear picture from the polls what Americans wanted, they would do it...but, I think they know that the polls are not reliable enough to put out a "Murtha" every week...
Look at what happened when they did....thinking that the polls were "ripe" for a "pull out now" campaign...it bit them in the butt.
So...now they backtrack and say they didn't mean to leave NOW, but in the near future....and their rhetoric is taking on the exact "plan" that had been put out months ago by the Pentagon as far as drawing down the extra troops that were sent in for the elections...etc...
But, the dems will so how this goes for a week or two...and then, right before the Christmas recess....they will stick their fingers in the wind...and make some kind of dramatic statement or whatever, in order to get the "talking points" set for the month or so that the GOP won't be in Washington to dispute their probable bogus plan.