One of the refreshing things about President Bush is that he doesn't decide his actions absed on polls. He consults his inner moral compass, listens to his advisors, and makes a decision and sticks to it.
Everything you could ask for in a President. (except that he sometimes has ideas that are a little different than my own. I chalk these up to 1) the fact that he has more information and 2) the fact that he had to get elected in the first place)
That's true, but Fred Barnes has a good item in today's Weekly Standard that the President after the election decided not to politicize the war. The last few weeks have changed his mind and now we are seeing the results.
BTW, Greg Palkot (sp?) did a great video essay of Iraq that was aired over the weekend. It was enlightening to see that there are places that Iraqis go on a daily basis that looks so unlike the quagmire that the leftists want us to see.