Other factors, both foreign and domestic, also will play a role in determining how quickly the Army can reduce tour lengths and numbers in Iraq.
Mr. Bush also highlighted his decision, first announced in April, to reduce tours in Iraq to 12 months, from the current 15 months.
If NASA decides to reduce tours of duty at the space station from six months to four, that would mean a need for even more astronauts.
It costs a mere 99 cents and I think it's an interesting app in that it reduces the "tour guide" app down to a very specific formulation, focusing on beer and beer only.
It has been striking that the efficiency of the kickers - even Jonny Wilkinson and Neil Jenkins - has been reduced here on tour.
Coca-Cola, which each year provided $4.35 million, was reported to be less prepared to pull out but has reduced its annual Tour budget to $872,000.
He had other things on his mind though, as leading up to the final major he campaigned to try and get the number of tournaments required to retain privileges on the US tour reduced from 15 to 12, a plea that fell upon deaf ears.
Bush also announced that the Pentagon would be reducing combat tours from a record length of 15 months to 12 months, attributing this reduction to a "return on success" of the surge.
Even so, Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the Army chief of staff, said Tuesday that he planned to reduce combat tours to 12 months from the current 15 months by the end of summer.
He was reduced to lecture tours in the US, where his melodramatic image of an "iron curtain" fired nascent cold war imaginations.
