unreal! still MORE on what bush calls "absurd"

Kidnapped Governor in Iraq Found Dead

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The kidnapped governor of volatile Anbar province was found dead after a fierce battle between U.S. forces and foreign fighters, a government spokesman said Tuesday.

In Washington, President Bush said Baghdad's fledgling leadership is "plenty capable" of defeating insurgents whose attacks on Iraqis and U.S. soldiers have intensified since the new Shiite-led government was announced April 28.

"I think the Iraqi people dealt the insurgents a serious blow when we had the elections," Bush said at a news conference. "In other words, what the insurgents fear is democracy because democracy is the opposition of their vision."

The insurgency, which is believed to be strongly backed by radical Sunni extremists, has killed more than 760 people in the past month.

Vice President Dick Cheney predicted that fighting in Iraq will end before the Bush administration leaves office in 2009.

"I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time," Cheney said Monday on CNN's "Larry King Live." "The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency."

---
Too bad that the rest of the world doesn't realize that when bush/cheney repeats something over & over & over & over, it's supposed to come true! That's the trouble when we're dealing with life and death in the real world and not this administration's fantasy land!