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It is difficult to sort out which psychological phase the Democratic Party is in from one day to the next. One day they want to fight the terrorists and the next day they want cut to run. To claim the hard line leftists are bipolar would be an understatement. Hard core liberals shriek not to accuse them of being unpatriotic while at the same time they claim America cannot win the war in Iraq. While steadfastly declaring that they are devoted to our men and women in uniform, a Democratic senator compares our troops to Nazis, a Congressman claims our soldiers are weak, and "Hanoi Jane" Fonda proclaims that our soldiers now have, "How to Commit Atrocities," as part of the military curriculum.

Reeling from the successful election in Iraq, Democratic strategists don't know how to respond when asked about the election. When questioned by a frustrated Tony Snow of FOX News, leftist spokeswoman Mary Anne Marsh insisted on repeatedly side-stepping the simple question put to her. Mr. Snow asked her to put the polls aside and just give her own opinion on the election in Iraq, but she could not do it. Like a doll with a string in her back, Marsh kept repeating, "The American people feel we are failing in Iraq and don't trust the president anymore." Just pull that string and you would get the same thing over and over. She looked foolish and Democrats do not speak for all of the American people.

One should also question some of the "polls" the leftists continue to quote. Perhaps feeling brave at the moment, Senator John Kerry made the comment that if the Democrats take back the House and Senate, impeachment proceedings against President Bush should begin. The Zogby poll is well known to those who follow such things. In a recent poll, Zogby found that 42% of Americans feel that if Bush lied about Iraq, he should be impeached. On leftists blogs and websites this number is cheered and gleefully compared to the relatively "low number" of people who wanted Bill Clinton impeached. That number was a mere 41%. That one lone percentage point makes all the difference in the vengeful and somewhat irrational minds of some of today's Democrats.

Congressman John Murtha continues to say that 80% of the Iraqi people want the United States military to leave Iraq at once. This is not substantiated by a recent poll done for the British Broadcasting Company. (BBC) When asked, "Thinking ahead to the next 12 months, what would be the best thing which could happen to Iraq?" American troops leaving Iraq was fourth on their list with only 5.7% of the people feeling that was important to them. That doesn't even account for all the Suni Muslims who one would think would the most eager to see the Americans leave their country.

Pursuing this question, it was re-worded and put to the people in a different way with little change in the results. When, "What would be the worst thing that could happen to Iraq in the next 12 months?" was asked, the occupation not leaving Iraq remained fourth at 8.9% with terrorism coming in third at 11.5%. Obviously, the average Iraq citizen is more concerned about terrorists than American soldiers.

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