Bush to deliver his annual State of Union address

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Source: CCTV.com | 01-24-2007 09:25

With polls showing him at the weakest point of his presidency, US President George W. Bush is preparing to deliver his annual State of the Union address. Bush will urge the Democrat-controlled Congress to give his new Iraq plan a chance to work.

Bush will address a Congress entirely controlled by Democrats for the first time since taking office.

The White House says Bush will ask Congress and the US people to get behind his Iraq plan to use a troop increase to try to bring order to Baghdad and pressure the Iraqi government to take greater responsibility.

Bush approached his speech with his popularity at almost the lowest level of his six years in the White House. A Washington-Post and ABC News poll released on Monday gave him a job approval rating of 33 percent, while the nation is increasingly opposed to the Iraq war and unsupportive of his drive to send in 21,500 more troops.

US citizen, said, "I think Bush sending the guys back to war is absolutely ridiculous. I think it is absolutely ridiculous that he is sending our men to war. I think the war is over. I think it has been long gone---over."

Scott Keeter, director survey research, PEW research CTR, said, "The public reacted quite negatively to Bush's proposal for adding troops in Iraq by a margin of nearly 2 to 1, the public said that they don't agree with that and don't want to go along with it. This issue has become the central one in terms of their thinking about the Bush presidency. Our poll indicates that the majority of the public thinks this presidency will be remembered more for failures than for success."

Bush will also use the address to talk about a domestic agenda for the year. Hoping to divert public attention to domestic matters, Bush plans to dangle a list of new and recycled proposals on health care, energy, education and immigration.

He will float proposals on reducing US gasoline consumption by 20 percent over 10 years, expanding health care for Americans, getting a new immigration policy approved and improving education.

Editor:Du Xiaodan