Poll: 58 percent want Iraq withdrawal by 2008 or sooner

The biggest challenge facing the Democratic party today is not the Republican party, but rather being swooned by the overwhelming popular support for withdrawing the troops, which is providing them with quick and easy political capital. It doesn't seem like we're handling that challenge with much responsibility right now.

But with numbers like these,

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Nearly six in 10 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.

The CNN poll was conducted Friday through Sunday by Opinion Research Corp. Pollsters interviewed 1,027 adults for the survey, which had a sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.