Cut-and-Run Dems?

Today from Reuters:

Democrats, who won control of the U.S. Congress, said on Sunday they will push for a phased withdrawal of American troops from Iraq to begin in four to six months, but the White House cautioned against fixing timetables.

"First order of business is to change the direction of Iraq policy," said Sen. Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat who is expected to be chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee in the new Congress.

Democrats will press President George W. Bush's administration to tell the Iraqi government that U.S. presence was "not open-ended, and that, as a matter of fact, we need to begin a phased redeployment of forces from Iraq in four to six months," Levin said on ABC's "This Week" program.

While Dems have refused to give a specific date for troop withdrawal, or "phased redeployment," they insist that this process should start soon, perhaps within six months.

Getting our troops home will be a good thing; however, I think we have a moral obligation to the Iraqi leadership to continue to have an agressive military presence there until the government is able to protect its citizens. I hope President Bush and SoD Gates will trust the generals in Iraq to adjust their tactics and will resist the desire to micromanage the war. What I don't want to see change is our resolve to win this fight, for to leave Iraq now is to leave it in a worse condition than we found it.