"The Governator" took an interesting position on Iraq yesterday, during his appearance on CBS' "Face the Nation," which appears to have landed him right where he loves to be -- square in the middle.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Congress should not "micromanage" the war by constraining funding, as House Democrats have said they plan to do, or by rewriting the 2002 authorization of force, as Senate Democrats plan to do.

This way, the California Republican, who told the Politico's Roger Simon this weekend that he might run for the U.S. Senate, satisfies the left's demand for withdrawal while also supporting the president in his current political fight with Congress.

"What good is the non-binding resolutions and all this stuff?" Mr. Schwarzenegger, the Austrian-born former movie star, told CBS' Bob Schieffer. "The Congresss has their choices right there. They can cut off funding for the war, if they really want to stop the war."

Senate Republicans have been saying the same thing.

"They should cut the funding or let the president do what he needs to do, because to micromanage a war is the worst thing, is the ingredient for a loss," Mr. Schwarzenegger said.

But he also said that the U.S. should set a timeline for withdrawal from Iraq.

"I believe very strongly that we should do everything that we can to be victorious and to really create the kind of democracy that we envisioned for iraq, but that we should let the Iraqis know that we are here up to this time and then we are going to draw our troops out," Mr. Schwarzenegger said.

"A timeline is absolutely important. The people in America don't want to see another Korean war, another Vietnam war, where it's an open-ended thing," he said.

-- Jon Ward, Capitol Hill correspondent, The Washington Times