Possible extended deployments for every soldier in Iraq

Tell me again how well things are going.

ABC News has learned that the Pentagon is considering extending the tours of duty for every active duty soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Forget small extensions and trickles of National Guard troops. Under the proposal, deployments for active duty soldiers would be extended from the current 12 months to 15 months. Senior Defense Department officials say the idea has already been presented to Defense Secretary Gates. A decision is expected as early as this week.

This, on the same day Bush tries to blame Democrats for possible future deployment extensions.

"The bottom line is this: Congress' failure to fund our troops will mean that some of our military families could wait longer for their loved ones to return from the front lines," Bush said. "Others could see their loved ones headed back to war sooner than anticipated. This is unacceptable."

So, Bush makes this ridiculous assertion this morning, then, only hours later, someone in the military wants to make sure ABCNews knows that Bush's statement against the Democrats is a lie.

Interesting, eh?

Later: Or is it that someone high up in the Army wants us to know how badly the Army is overstretched or broken?

(This is not the first ABC/Johnathan Karl leak of deployment extension/early deployment, waiting for signature, off Gates' desk.)