The most damning info in Woodward's book [View All]

"In the summer of 2002, Bush approved $700 million worth of "preparatory tasks" in the Persian Gulf region such as upgrading airfields, bases, fuel pipelines and munitions storage depots to accommodate a massive U.S. troop deployment. The Bush administration funded the projects from a supplemental appropriations bill for the war in Afghanistan and old appropriations, keeping Congress unaware of the reprogramming of money and the eventual cost."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17347-2004Apr16_3.html

Misappropriation is to government officials as tax evasion is to mobsters.

This calls for a GAO investigation. If any House Repubs refuse to go along with it, the TV ad in November could be, "Why did X block an investigation of the diversion of money from the hunt for OBL? Doesn't X want to know why OBL is still at large (or why it took three years to capture/kill OBL, depending on the October surprise)?"