Bush Predicts More Testing in Iraq in 2006
President Bush is predicting a year of “more testing and sacrifice” in Iraq as he extends his campaign to turn around the public’s low opinion of his performance on the war. A speech by the president to a gathering of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Washington on Tuesday will be another in a series, begun in December, aimed at talking to Americans in more detail and more candidly about the situation in Iraq. An AP-Ipsos poll found just 39 percent of those surveyed last week approved of his handling of the war, compared with 41 percent in early December. Full Story