WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Delayed U.S. congressional passage of funding for the       Iraq war could mean extended deployments for troops serving there as cash to train their replacements dries up, a top White House aide said on Sunday.

White House counselor Dan Bartlett criticized Congress for going on recess before finishing the wartime supplemental bill, which       President Bush has vowed to veto if it sets a timetable for pulling U.S. combat troops out of Iraq.

"By mid-May, troops in Iraq, serving Iraq, would potentially have to have their deployments extended because they're not getting their job done right here," Bartlett told ABC's "This Week" television program.

He cited remarks by Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, to a House of Representatives panel on Thursday that after April 15, without emergency funding, the Army would have to begin curtailing some troop training.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said that if the funds were not approved by May 15, the Army might have to extend some soldiers' tours, because other units would not be ready, and reduce equipment repair work, among other things.

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Don't cut the funding or our troops will be undertrained and overextended. I mean, are these fucking assholes for real??? Are these people even in touch with reality????