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Activities until 2008 campaign
In 2002, Clinton warned that pre-emptive military action against Iraq would have unwelcome consequences,[301][302] and later claimed to have opposed the Iraq War from the start (though some dispute this).[303] In 2005, Clinton criticized the Bush administration for its handling of emissions control, while speaking at the United Nations Climate Change conference in Montreal.[304]
The William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park in Little Rock, Arkansas, was dedicated in 2004.[305] Clinton released a best-selling autobiography, My Life, in 2004.[306] In 2007, he released Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World, which also became a New York Times Best Seller and garnered positive reviews.[307]

Former president George H. W. Bush and Clinton in the White House Library, January 2005
In the aftermath of the 2004 Asian tsunami, U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan appointed Clinton to head a relief effort.[308] After Hurricane Katrina, Clinton joined with fellow former president George H. W. Bush to establish the Bush-Clinton Tsunami Fund in January 2005, and the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund in October of that year.