George Bush: Spiraling Iraq Violence "A Very Positive Moment"

George Bush: Spiraling Iraq Violence "A Very Positive Moment"

Violence continues across southern Iraq today, as radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is threatening to end his crucial cease-fire by calling for the "downfall of the U.S.-backed government."

In response, the administration has gone on a desperate PR blitz to label renewed violence in Iraq as "byproduct of the success of the surge." "It's "what critics have wanted to see," said White House Press Secretary Dana Perino, calling it a struggle led by Iraqi security forces.

Today -- as rockets rain down on the Green Zone and two American soldiers died -- Bush cast the activity as a "very positive moment" in an interview with the Times of U.K.:

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