Pentagon to shift funds to pay for Iraq war

[ckramer]

Source: yn

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon plans to shift $9.7 billion of its overall budget to pay for war operations but warned on Wednesday it will run out of money if the U.S. Congress does not approve more funding by mid-July.

The Defense Department, with major operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, sent Congress requests to transfer $5.7 billion to the Army's personnel account from the personnel accounts of other branches of the U.S. armed services.

It also asked Congress for permission to move $4 billion from the services' operations and maintenance accounts to the Army and U.S. Special Operations Command, whose troops train local security forces and conduct counterterrorism missions.

If approved, the transfers will allow the Pentagon to continue operations until late July, according to department spokesman Bryan Whitman.

"I don't want to leave you with the impression that this provides us a whole lot," he said.

"This $9.7 billion reprogramming only buys another few weeks of operations until the department as a whole will then run out of critical funding."



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Cut off the funding already, Pelosi!

[robinlynne]

1. f them! enough war, god damn it.

[tctctctc]

11. Enough DARPA, enough School of the Americas, ENOUGH!

Humanity NEEDS to evolve beyond this madness...

ENOUGH TRAUMA! Let us become what we need to become. WE ARE THE GOOD PEOPLE OF THE WORLD!

Those who have been in power for thousands of years are mad...all those generations of psychopaths have brought us nothing but misery after misery.

ENOUGH! For the sake of the Earth and it's children, let the SANE show the way.

[KansDem]

2. What next? Will the DOD be stopping by DC's payday loan establishments?

Enough is enough, already!

[skooooo]

3. Is this even legal??

[MrsBrady]

6. since when did that stop them? n/t

[Baby Snooks]

4. Okay Nancy...

Time to end the war by cutting off the funding. The Iraqis have their own government now. Their own democracy. A real one. Not the puppet democracy you and the president are intent on installing.

So much for the "millions of lives for billions of barrels" policy of this country. A policy of both the Clintons and the Bushes.

[flamin lib]

5. $10 billion is 2% of the Pentagon budget.

Let 'em hold a bake sale.

[Heather MC]

7. eww I wouldn't want to eat what they might put in those cakes and cookies

[TNOE]

10. OR.... MAYBE.....

They could go hunt that $2 TRILLION dollars rumsfeld announced they lost on 9/10/01. ALL that money has GOT to be somewhere....................

[LynnTheDem]

8. Yet again.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul to kill Peter.

[Phred42]

9. ...then it's damned time they DID run out of money - here's why