Obama, Democrats are 'Antiwar Hypocrites'

Ralph Peters, one of the top experts on military strategy notes in a column published in the New York Post that Barack Obama and the Democratic Party have turned their back on the anti-war movement that won then control of Congress in 2006 and gave Obama the Democratic nod for president in 2008.

The silence on the left over the about-face is deafening. Could it be that the far left doesn't really care about the war in Iraq? They just want control of the U.S. government, even it means sacrificing what they used to refer to as their basic principles?

From Peters' column:

Am I the only one who's noticed the silence? Mere months ago, left-wing bloggers and demonstrators were wailing Support our troops, bring them home! seven days a week.

Now their presidential candidate has announced that he won't bring all those troops home, but will simply transfer combat forces from Iraq to Afghanistan - expanding that war. (He's discussed possibly invading Pakistan, too.)

And the left's quiet as a graveyard at midnight.

Where are the outraged protests from MoveOn or the DailyKos? I thought the extreme left felt sorry for our service members in harm's way and wanted to reunite them with their families.

Peters further argues that Barack Obama is looking more like Lyndon Johnson, who escalated the war in Vietnam to catastrophic levels. It may turn out that Barack Obama is the war-monger, not John McCain (as the far left is portraying).

Under Barack Obama, there will be an expansion of war in Afghanistan and possibly Pakistan. U.S. forces will be fighting for 100 years -- if Barack Obama is elected president.

Read the full column at the newspaper's Web site.