Which win is more important?

Martin Devon wants the President to make a decision:

Bush needs to stop worrying about being re-elected and just focus on what the right thing to do is. We need to root out the bad guys (like in Falouja) and kill them. We need to transition the governement to Iraqis, but we must take the heat and defeat the SOB's that would return Iraq to despotism. If Bush breaks the back of the problem then even if Kerry gets elected we will win in Iraq eventually. But if Bush goes wishy-washy to tr[y] to finesse the election we could lose in Iraq and then the whole rationale for the Bush campaign evaporates.

I want Bush to be re-elected, but I want to win in Iraq much, much more. We msu win in Iraq. We must. The thing is, doing the right thing is W's best chance of being re-elected. Bush needs to have faith. He ought to be pretty good at that.

Earlier in his post, Devon says that hopefully, if Bush secures a win in Iraq, he'll also be rewarded with a win at the polls. That is by no means certain, I'm afraid. But Martin is right, if Bush keeps chasing both, he's likely to get neither. I've got to agree with him that it's more important for Bush to win in Iraq then at the polls.