Twenty years ago, the term "micromanagement" was a term used to demean Jimmy Carter for being too involved in the minutiae of White House operations. My how that term has grown. These days, Bush and the Roadblock Republicans are pulling out the term for any attempt by Congress to influence actions in Iraq, even those that involve the movement of more than a hundred thousand troops over the space of months. Micro has gone Macro.

But whatever prefix you put in front of it, the American people have a different idea about who should manage the war.

As the president and Congress move toward a possible constitutional confrontation over the war, both receive negative marks from the public for their handling of the situation in Iraq. But by a large margin, Americans trust the Democrats rather than the president to find a solution to a conflict that remains enormously unpopular. And more than six in 10 in the new poll said Congress should have the final say on when to bring the troops home. And by 2-1, Americans said Congress rather than the president should have the final decision about deciding when to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq. Even nearly three in 10 Republicans side with Congress over the president on this question.

There's another source that's interesting in its take on who can "micromanage" the troops.

Section 8 - Powers of Congress To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; To provide and maintain a Navy; To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

If there's a Constitutional showdown in the works, the Constitution has already chosen sides.