From "Bush says attacks aim to undermine progress", via Reuters UK:

President George W. Bush has portrayed resistance forces as growing desperate because Iraq is heading in the right direction.

Bush offered his assessment on Monday after two bloody days in Iraq, with a rocket attack on Sunday on a fortified Baghdad hotel where U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Paul Wolfowitz was staying, and four suicide bomb attacks on Monday that left dozens dead and hundreds injured in the Iraqi capital.

"There are terrorists in Iraq who are willing to kill anybody in order to stop our progress," Bush said at the White House after meeting with Paul Bremer, U.S. civil administrator for Iraq, and Gen. John Abizaid, head of U.S. Central Command.

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"The more progress we make on the ground, the more free the Iraqis become, the more electricity is available, the more jobs are available, the more kids that are going to school, the more desperate these killers become, because they can't stand the thought of a free society," Bush said.

Interesting, when both Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld have indicated in recent weeks that Iraq is in fact not heading in the right direction.

George W., move to the head of the spinning class.