Stay The Course, Pt. II

Followup to this entry from this afternoon...

John Kerry re-explained his plan for Iraq on last Sunday's 'Face The Nation':
"It is more dangerous to the mission to leave them in the large numbers they're in today in the status quo. The president keeps saying we're going to stay the course. Staying the course leaves the Iraqis the option of making the decision of when they stand up. If you say to the Iraqis--here's what I believe the president should do. I--these elections are incredibly important. I believe they're going to be successful. We want them to be successful. The day after the election, the president of the United States should announce to the Iraqis and the world, `Because they were successful, because the referendum was successful, I am withdrawing the 20,000 additional troops we put in to do them.'"

Sen. Kerry first proposed this post-election 20,000 troop withdrawal idea months ago.

And here's what an AP story said today about Rumsfeld:
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday he expects some 20,000 U.S. troops to return home from Iraq after next week's elections, and he suggested that some of the remaining 137,000 forces could pull out next year.

"If conditions permit, we could go below that," he said in the latest administration hint of at least a modest reduction next year....

When a Democrat proposes a plan for bringing our troops home, he is a TRAITOR.

When the administration proposes the exact same plan months later, they are... I don't know, you tell me.

Hypocrites? Liars? Desperate to save their own asses? All of the above?