Watching Democrats deal with the issue of Iraq is like watching the old movie, "Perils of Pauline." Just as everything looks great for them, they do something to get into a jam, and just when it looks like they are in serious trouble, something happens to get them out. It's almost exhausting to watch, but certainly not boring.
Last fall, Americans were increasingly focusing on why we invaded Iraq, the faulty intelligence, the unsuccessful search for weapons of mass destruction, whether the Bush administration misrepresented or even lied to the American people about intelligence. It seemed things couldn't get much worse for the administration. The whole rationale for the war was in question.
Then Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., declared that the United States should pull out its troops as soon as possible, effectively shifting the spotlight away from how and why we went to war -- the Bush administration's Achilles' heel -- and toward the question of what do we do now? There is no national consensus on that question, making it a political jump ball.
Predictably, the focus shifted
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