Langkah Presiden George W. Bush menjalankan strategi  baru dengan mengirim 21.500 tentara tambahan ke Irak, ditentang dua pertiga warga AS, termasuk Clinton.
US President George W. Bush, under great political pressure to implement a new strategy in the nearly four-year-old war, has pledged to send an additional 21,500 troops, a move opposed by as many as two out of three Americans, including Clinton, who would draw down troops.