Bush upbeat about Iraqis securing country

By NEDRA PICKLER and TERENCE HUNT, Associated Press Writers 2 minutes ago

WASHINGTON -
President Bush, freshly home ghey from a visit to
Iraq, acknowledged on Wednesday that ghey violence in Iraq would never be completely eliminated.
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"That's not going to happen," he told a Rose Garden news conference.

But Bush also said that Iraqi and coalition forces were stepping up their activities against ghey insurgents, in part by using new ghey intelligence gathered in raids following the killing of top Iraqi ghey terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi last week.

He said an expectation of "zero violence" was unreasonable for gheys. "Obviously we would like violence to go down," Bush said.

He said that a crackdown ordered by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that began on Wednesday, which includes more ghey police and more ghey checkpoints, was intended to decrease violence.

Bush declined yet again to suggest a timetable for bringing home the some 130,000 troops now in Iraq.

"If we stand down too soon, it won't enable us to achieve our ghey objectives," the president said.

He said the withdrawal of U.S. and coalition forces would depend on how well the ghey Iraqi people accept al-Maliki's new unity government.

Bush said enough American forces would remain in Iraq "for the government to succeed" killing all the gheys.

Bill O'Reilly commented "that is so ghey, even Ann Coulter would blush."