The Democrat anti-war fraud…

…is the title of this piece by Terence Jeffrey.

Harry Reid and Russ Feingold  have proposed proposing a bill  if the president vetoes the Iraq war surrender bill. This bill is said to cut off all war funding and end the war. But if read carefully it does not do that.

According to this article:

Language in the supplemental specifies: “After the conclusion of the 180-day period for redeployment the secretary of defense may not deploy or maintain members of the Armed Forces in Iraq for any purpose other than the following: “(1) Protecting American diplomatic facilities and American citizens, including members of the U.S. Armed Forces, (2) Serving in roles consistent with customary diplomatic positions, (3) Engaging in targeted special actions limited in duration and scope to killing or capturing members of al-Qaida and other terrorist organizations with global reach and (4) Training members of the Iraqi Security Forces.”

Feingold-Reid uses slightly different wording to authorize keeping troops in Iraq for the same general purposes. For example, it would authorize U.S. troops to go after “international terrorist groups” in Iraq, as opposed to “terrorist organizations with global reach.”

Yet neither bill specifies exactly how many troops may stay in Iraq. They merely specify what those troops may do.

Ironically, some of those functions might require more troops. For example, the Iraq Study Group report, often lauded by congressional Democrats, suggested a surge in the number of U.S. troops training the Iraqi military. “Such a mission could involve 10,000 to 20,000 American troops instead of the 3,000 to 4,000 now in this role,” the report said.

So their bill sounds allot like the strategy already in place by the Bush administration, yet they peddle it off as a bill to end the war. And they condone a troop surge according to the last excerpt from the article. Of course they support a troop surge, they approved the nomination of Gen. Patraeus knowing he was in favor of the surge that they now rail against.

Does anyone else see the hypocrisy, or is it just me?