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Sen. Levin hints at emerging Democratic surrender strategy on Iraq

Right on time, as success is becoming attainable in Iraq, the cowardly Senate Democrats are ready to yank the rug out from under America’s successful new Iraq strategy by attempting to include verbiage in the latest funding bill that would cut the money in half and try to undermine President Bush’s new Iraq strategy.

TheHill.com – Sen. Levin hints at emerging Democratic strategy on Iraq

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) is working with a key appropriator on a strategy to halve the White House’s war-funding request to pressure President Bush into changing course in Iraq.

Levin said Wednesday that giving Bush a six-month installment plan on the nearly $200 billion fiscal 2008 war-funding request would serve a dual purpose: It would intensify pressure on the president to change course after next June, while avoiding “sending a negative message to the troops,” because war funding would continue until next may or June, when the president would have to request a second funding bill.

Levin, who is working with Appropriations Committee member Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), said the duo is talking with the panel’s other Democrats about including language in the supplemental that would target a complete withdrawal from Iraq in nine months.

Personally, I find this reprehensible, and I think it is going to fail as quickly as their other cheap ploys have failed. Just when Osama is lamenting his imminent defeat and chastising his “mujahid” in Iraq for their “negligence” in his latest audio message, along come the Democrats to give Al Qaeda a helping hand by undermining Iraqi confidence in our commitment with political tricks like this. You make me sick, Senator Levin.

I consider this an opportunity for the Democratic Presidential Candidates to step up and speak out against this policy. I won’t be holding my breath, however.

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