Real deadline for Iraq war money weeks beyond Bush’s deadline

[Olney Blue]

http://news.bostonherald.com/politics/view.bg?articleid=192049


Real deadline for Iraq war money weeks beyond Bush’s deadline
By Associated Press
Saturday, March 31, 2007 - Updated: 02:36 PM EST

WASHINGTON - The real deadline for Congress to provide more money for the war in Iraq is well beyond the April 15 deadline cited by President Bush and Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
The Pentagon can take several penny-pinching steps without harming troop readiness or other dire consequences predicted by the Bush administration until Congress actually comes up with the money.
Mid-April is about when $70 billion provided by Congress for the war will run out. After that, Pentagon accountants will move money around in the department’s more than half-trillion dollar budget to make sure operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are not disrupted.
In fact, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, the Army has enough bookkeeping flexibility to pay for operations in Iraq well into July. Lawmakers and Capitol Hill staff aides view mid- to late May as the deadline for completing the war spending bill to avoid hardships.

more at link.....

I just can't believe the WH would mislead us about the deadline..... :eyes:

[papau]

1. The Right wing Fox owned Herald is also lying here - it's mid to end of July n/t

n/t