Additional Money for Iraq Not Needed Until Spring, According to New Study

[IkeWarnedUs]

Just got this in an e-mail from MoveOn.org's Daily MisLead:


SPECIAL AFTERNOON MIS-LEAD: Additional Money for Iraq Not Needed Until Spring, According to New Study


As Congress is preparing to vote on the administration's emergency $87 billion request, a new study is challenging the immediate need for the funding.

Defense Secretary Rumsfeld asserted two weeks ago that "the funds the president requested are vital to our success in the global war on terror and to our ability to finish the job in Iraq."1 But that position is being undermined by a Congressional Research Service (CRS) study that has found that Iraq military operations have sufficient funds until May of next year.

The CRS study released yesterday suggests that the recently-passed $368.2 billion 2004 Defense funding bill plus the emergency funding Congress passed at the start of the war provides the Army alone with $37 billion in funding for personnel and operations and maintenance, enough to fund operations through early May.2

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I'm not sure what the copywrite law is about e-mails like this. If it's ok I'd be happy to post the rest of the message.

[IkeWarnedUs]

1. Link to the Congressional Research Service report

And check it out - it's on Jan Schakowsky's site:

http://www.house.gov/schakowsky/04-Supp-availability_of_Army_funds-memo-15Oct03.pdf