This is a different spin.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/15/60minutes/main612067.shtml
Woodward interviewed 75 of the people who helped prepare for the war, including President Bush ? the only source who speaks for attribution -- in the upcoming book, ?Plan of Attack,? published by Simon & Schuster. Both CBSNews.com and Simon & Schuster are units of Viacom.
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."