Majority of troops agree with the Democrats on withdrawing troops

A new Zogby Poll shows that only one in five U.S. soldiers in Iraq want troops to stay in the country "as long as they are needed."  72% want troops out within the next year, which is pretty much what the Democrats are proposing:

Seventy two percent of U.S. troops in Iraq believe the United Statesshould pull out within one year, a column by Nicholas Kristof inTuesday's New York Times reveals. The poll was conducted by ZogbyInternational and is the first poll to examine the attitudes of thosecurrently serving in the wartorn nation.

Speaking of polls, even 64% of people in Kentucky, the home of Republican Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell, back withdrawing all U.S. troops by next year.

On the Republican side, Republicans like Ron Paul, Chuck Hagel and others understand that Americans in both parties are sick of Iraq, and therefore will campaign in 2008 on an anti-war platform.  After all, the public thinks Iraq is the number one issue facing this country.  Second is the economy, which percentage-wise is one-third as important to voters.