Poll: 58 percent want U.S. Troops out of Iraq by 2008

I guess this makes Americans cut and runners:

Nearly six in ten Americans want to see U.S. troops leave Iraq either immediately or within a year, and more would rather have Congress running U.S. policy in the conflict than President Bush, according to a CNN poll out Tuesday.

Though support for Bush's decision to dispatch additional troops to Iraq grew to 37 percent -- up from 32 percent in a mid-January poll -- a slim majority of 52 percent say Congress should block funding for the new deployment.

Americans don't even buy into the White House strategy of accusing Dems of not supporting our troops:

They were more closely divided on the issue of funding the president's "New Way Forward," with 52 percent saying Congress should block funds for additional troops and 43 percent opposing such a move.

And Americans think the Dems are better able to run the war, which dismisses the argument that Nancy Pelosi is micromanaging the conflict:

The White House and congressional Republicans have warned Democratic leaders against plans that would "micromanage" U.S. commanders in Iraq. But the latest survey finds Americans more receptive to having Congress take the lead, with 47 percent saying Congress should be "primarily responsible" for setting war policy. Only 33 percent said the president should be primarily responsible for setting the country's course.