Bob Woodward will be on 60 Minutes this Sunday to discuss yet another book about Bush’s obsession with Iraq. Based on just this press release from CBS, this is gonna be big :

In the interview, Woodward talked about how the administration was able to finance secret preparations for the Iraq war.

“President Bush, after a National Security Council meeting, takes Don Rumsfeld aside, collars him physically and takes him into a little cubbyhole room and closes the door and says, ‘What have you got in terms of plans for Iraq?’ What is the status of the war plan? I want you to get on it. I want you to keep it secret,” says Woodward.

“…The end of July 2002, they need $700 million, a large amount of money for all these tasks. And the president approves it. But Congress doesn’t know and it is done. They get the money from a supplemental appropriation for the Afghan War, which Congress has approved. …Some people are gonna look at a document called the Constitution which says that no money will be drawn from the treasury unless appropriated by Congress. Congress was totally in the dark on this.”

So Bush illegally diverted money in order to plan an secret war? Hmmm….doesn’t this all sound familiar??

[ Update : Damn. I see that Atrios not only beat me to this one, but speculates that the money's coming from humanitarian assistance funds. These Bushies are some crooked sumbitches, huh? ]