Abu Wabu

Unable to foist their blatant cut-and-run strategy on the American public, the Democrats have decided to surrender in Iraq by other means designed to hide their complicity. The Politico has the details:

Top House Democrats, working in concert with anti-war groups, have decided against using congressional power to force a quick end to U.S. involvement in Iraq, and instead will pursue a slow-bleed strategy designed to gradually limit the administration's options.

Led by Rep. John P. Murtha, D-Pa., and supported by several well-funded anti-war groups, the coalition's goal is to limit or sharply reduce the number of U.S. troops available for the Iraq conflict, rather than to openly cut off funding for the war itself.

The legislative strategy will be supplemented by a multimillion-dollar TV ad campaign designed to pressure vulnerable GOP incumbents into breaking with President Bush and forcing the administration to admit that the war is politically unsustainable.

As described by participants, the goal is crafted to circumvent the biggest political vulnerability of the anti-war movement -- the accusation that it is willing to abandon troops in the field.

Power Line's John Hinderaker is succinct:

So the Democrats will do their best to make the United States' effort in Iraq fail, but without taking responsibility for that action, and then try to benefit politically from the country's defeat. Nice.

No-one should be surprised that the Democrats and their antiwar supporters want to hide their true intentions from the American public; those intentions include riding to power on the backs of a military they will have worked very hard to defeat from home. This is worse than cynical; it is insurrection by a thousand lesser acts, and should be made an issue in the '08 election starting now.

Via Power Line