Hillary segera memberi tanggapan yang menentang saat Presiden Bush mengusulkan pengiriman 20 ribu tentara lagi ke Irak, dan menggambarkan usul itu sebagai mengusulkan peningkatan perang di Irak.
Clinton summarily came out against President George W. Bush's proposals announced this week to send some 20,000 more US troops into Iraq, describing the plan as a proposed escalation of the war in Iraq.