The absurdity of this smoke & mirrors. Bush*s' budget does not include Iraq.
Pretty easy pledge when he'll have been out of office for years.
~~snip~~ ...presidential spokesman Tony Snow was pressed to explain how Bush's budget-cutting pledge could be reconciled with the burgeoning costs of the war in Iraq, which is funded largely through emergency supplemental bills rather than the regular annual budget process. Those costs thus are currently not subject to overall spending limits and are excluded from deficit calculations.
Snow said Bush in his Jan. 23 State of the Union speech would "move toward making expenditures in Iraq and in the war on terror generally, including Afghanistan, as transparent as possible." ~~snip~~
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/03/AR2007010300235_pf.html