Bush May Send 40,000 Additional Troops to Iraq Washington AFP : 01 / 05 / 2007 American media sources mentioned yesterday that the American President George Bush may send almost 40,000 additional American troops to Iraq within the context of a new policy in Iraq that will be disclosed shortly . The media expects Bush to send between 9,000 and 40,000 troops to Iraq , where there are currently 130,000 soldiers , according to military sources . This step may provoke a controversy because of the growing resentment of the war in Iraq among Americans . The CNN television network mentioned that Bush is thinking of sending between 20 and 40 thousand additional troops and that he may announce this at the beginning of next week . An administration official who wished to remain anonymous told the network that the increase in the number of forces ( ... ) is one of the current topics of discussion . And the CBS news network mentioned , based on sources in the American army , that Bush is ready to send about 9,000 soldiers and components of the Marines to Iraq and to place an additional 11,000 in Kuwait and the United States in a state of readiness . CBS said that two brigades of the American army , comprising about 7,500 soldiers , will head to Baghdad while about 1,500 Marine forces will be sent to the troubled Sunni al - Anbar province . It added that another Army brigade would be standing ready in Kuwait while two more Army brigades would be standing ready in the United States . The American McClatchy Press Group mentioned that Bush was thinking of sending three or four combat brigades to Iraq , or between 15 and 20 thousand troops . And an anonymous official in the U.S. State Department told the press that the soldiers would not increase in numbers but would flow to Iraq . Media sources warned that a final decision had not yet been taken on the + matter of the preparation of troops and that the number was not yet determined . White House spokesperson Tony Snow said Wednesday that the president had not yet made a final decision . The American president , in an article written and published yesterday by the Wall Street Journal , said he would address the American people to explain the new strategy with + regards to Iraq in the coming days . He had said previously that he was studying all the options , among which was the temporary increase in American forces in Iraq .