Democrats are lying on timeline for Iraq war funding

streiff at Redstate has the must-read details of the latest Democrat lie regarding funding for our troops. The President has warned Democrats that if they don’t get him a ‘clean’ supplemental bill to sign by April 15th, that Congress will in effect be shortchanging the military and not giving them what they need to fight the war. Democrats, in turn, are saying that they have until the end of May to sort out the supplemental, which is complete horsecrap (to put it delicately), as strieff explains:

The fact is, funds do start to run out on April 15, just as Secretary Gates said. The fact is that while reprogramming authority will allow combat operations to proceed, the bill payer will be just what Secretary Gates said: quality of life expenditures for troops and their families, equipment repair, real property maintenance, and procurement. And while a later supplemental can restore budget authority what it can’t restore is the lost time.

Of course it doesn’t matter to them if barracks, family quarters, and hospitals can’t be maintained. It doesn’t matter to them if equipment needed to train troops for deployment or to support disaster relief operations domestically isn’t repaired. It doesn’t matter to them if training for troops deploying to combat have their training curtailed. The “slow bleed” is what they are after.

He characterizes what the Democrats are doing as a “misdirection.” I call it outright lying.

The D stands for Deception

And now, a very important message for the Dem party ‘leadership’ on the issue of the Iraq war.

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