Feingold calls for cutting funds to end U.S. involvement in Iraq

Sen. Russ Feingold said Thursday that he will seek to end the U.S. involvement in the war in Iraq by cutting off funding in Congress.

“I have consistently called for the redeployment of our military from Iraq,’’ he said at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. “... But that advice has not been heeded. And now Congress must use its main power — the power of the purse — to put an end to our involvement in this disastrous war.’’

Feingold’s comments came a day after President Bush announced his plan to send 21,500 more troops to Iraq.

“And I’m not talking here only about the surge or escalation,’’ Feingold said.