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From Zogby: A majority of Americans - 54% - believe the United States has not lost the war in Iraq, but there is dramatic disagreement on the question between Democrats and Republicans, a new UPI/Zogby Interactive poll shows...

The national media is all over it, right? Not so much.

But UPI news analyst Martin Sieff notes that President Bush "still enjoys far more credibility than the Democrat-controlled U.S. Congress over the war in Iraq," according to the UPI/Zogby poll's findings.

The poll, which was conducted Aug. 17-20, found that twice as many Americans thought the current 110th Congress's performance on Iraq was worse than the three previous Republican controlled Congresses. In all, only 20.2 percent of those polled believed that the current Congress had been better than those of the previous Republican ones. Some 42.8 percent said it was worse.

These results appear to be a devastating repudiation of the political strategy followed by Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill.

And what was the Democratic strategy? Try to force America's defeat by setting a timetable for surrender retreat from the battle with al Qaeda and the Islamofacists in Iraq.

More Americans want President Bush to manage the war than want the Democratic Congress to do it, the poll found.

Memo to Republicans: Embrace the surge. It's working. And the American people reward leaders who work for victory.