WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush will urge skeptical members of the U.S. Congress to get behind his plan to increase U.S. troops in Iraq in a State of the Union speech that seeks to address global-climate change.
With polls showing him at the weakest point of his presidency, Bush was preparing to deliver his annual address to a nation increasingly opposed to the Iraq war and unsupportive of his drive to send in 21,500 more troops.
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