Bush, setelah berbicara dengan Perdana Menteri Irak Nuri Al-Maliki dan komandan tinggi militer AS di Irak, mengatakan di Washington bahwa rencana barunya untuk memulihkan ketenangan di Irak akan memerlukan waktu berbulan-bulan.
Bush, after speaking to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the top US military commander in Iraq, said in Washington that his new plan to pacify  war-wracked Iraq would take months.