Only 35% of Americans support a timetable for withdrawl.

[Clarkie1]

(CNN) -- As President Bush launched a new effort Wednesday to gain public support for the Iraq war, a new poll found most Americans do not believe he has a plan that will achieve victory.

But the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Wednesday night also found nearly six in 10 Americans said U.S. troops should not be withdrawn from Iraq until certain goals are achieved.

Just 35 percent wanted to set a specific timetable for their exit, as some critics of the war have suggested.

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Most American's share the view of Clark that a timetable is inappropriate at this time, but so is "staying the course." We need to change our strategy in order to achieve our goals, and Democrats ought to be united in advancing a clear of stategy for in Iraq a majority of Americans will be comfortable supporting. We need to show the Democratic Party stands for goals being achieved in Iraq, but we have a better, more enlightened, more multi-faceted, and smarter alternative to the Bush Doctrine's tunnel-vision and overreliance on the military to achieve our goals. Thoughts?