I'm not surprised in the least. Hillary and her band of thieves love to slip in hot button words like, "escalation". They don't want to admit, nor even consider, that the increase in troops bring about the DE-escalation of the problems in Iraq. They pray at the altar of Political Agendas and preach to the ignorant who feed at the trough of the MSM and kiss the feet of the loony left.
I heard today that "escalation" is another hot button word from the Vietnam War Era...and that is why the dems are using that word instead of "surge"...
Because supposedly Nixon or Ford used the word escalation when they infused a lot of troops to try to win the war...before the dem Congress pulled the rug right out from under them.
Therefore the ESCALATION word is very on purpose.