Iraq war fund delay could extend tours: Bush aide (Bartlett) - Reuters

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Iraq war fund delay could extend tours: Bush aide

Reuters
Sunday, April 1, 2007; 1:37 PM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Delayed U.S. congressional passage of funding for the
Iraq war could mean extended deployments for troops serving there as cash to
train their replacements dries up, a top White House aide said on Sunday.

White House counselor Dan Bartlett criticized Congress for going on recess
before finishing the wartime supplemental bill, which President Bush has vowed
to veto if it sets a timetable for pulling U.S. combat troops out of Iraq.

"By mid-May, troops in Iraq, serving Iraq, would potentially have to have their
deployments extended because they're not getting their job done right here,"
Bartlett told ABC's "This Week" television program.

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Bartlett said those concerns were valid despite a Congressional Research Service
memo dated March 28 and sent to the Senate Budget Committee that said the
Army could finance war operations through most of July.

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/01/AR2007040100424.html

[crikkett]

1. way to support those troops!!

they and their families are being treated like tools, for political leverage.

Freaking grr.
Dis-gusting.

[Forkboy]

2. Nice try Spanky,but you'll need a better try than that.