Democrats are in complete disagreement with each other on how best to formulate an Iraq stategy, and John Kerry's timing - in introducing a resolution calling for the withdrawl of U.S. troops from Iraq at the end of the year - is as bad as ever.

With his brilliant surprise visit to Iraq a day ago, and with the successes last week in Iraq, it is clear that the momentum on Iraq has shifted back to the President. The Democrats can try as they will, but one suspects that they will yet again fail to develop a coherant, credible policy to present to the American people with regard to Iraq, and will - as they have all along - sit on the sidelines and snipe criticism at Mr. Bush, while never presenting their vision (because they aren't even close to having one) of Iraq's future.

And that is not likely to bring them great electoral success this November.