more disasters in Iraq

From YahooNews :

General Fears 'Spectacular' Iraq Attacks

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A top U.S. military official raised fears Friday that insurgents may try to carry out "spectacular" attacks as the Iraqi election draws near, while Sunni religious leaders called for unity but persisted in their demands that the vote be delayed.
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A state of emergency, originally announced two months ago, also was extended Thursday for 30 days throughout the country except for the northern Kurdish-run areas. The decree includes a nighttime curfew and gives the government additional power to make arrests and launch military or police operations.
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"I think a worst case is where they have a series of horrific attacks that cause mass casualties in some spectacular fashion in the days leading up to the elections," Lessel told The Associated Press in an interview.
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On Thursday, the commander of U.S. ground forces in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Thomas Metz, also acknowledged that security is poor in four of 18 Iraqi provinces but said delaying the vote would only increase the danger.
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In the village of Naimiyah, hundreds of refugees from the destroyed nearby city of Fallujah demonstrated after Friday's prayers demanding that U.S. and Iraqi forces leave the city, open all the roads for residents to go back and pay compensation for damaged property.
The previous four days had seen a string of assassinations, suicide car bombings and other assaults that killed 90 people.
But Thursday's toll was the highest for the U.S. military in Iraq since a suicide bombing at a mess tent in Mosul on Dec. 21 killed 22 people, including 14 U.S. soldiers and three American contractors.
The latest deaths brought the number of U.S. troops killed since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003 to 1,350, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,063 died as a result of hostile action.
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President Bush was optimistic Friday, saying the elections will be "a credibly hopeful experience," despite rising violence and doubts that the vote will bring stability and democracy.
"I know it's hard but it's hard for a reason," Bush told reporters in the Oval Office, saying that a small number of insurgents are trying to impede the elections because they fear freedom. "This is a big moment for the Iraqi people."
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OK, so there is a continual state of emergency, people are predicting "a series of horrific attacks that cause mass casualties", our military admits that "security is poor", Iraqis are demanding that we leave, there are more & more attacks and the death tolls are rising and yet bush is "optimistic"!!!!!!!!!!! He thinks that this is "hard"!!! Umm, i think this is a little "harder" than his "hard work" of being president!