Baghdad governor Ali al-Haidri was shot dead in a roadside ambush in Baghdad Tuesday.

The insurgency continues to grow as the American occupation of Iraq lingers on. It has become increasingly obvious the White House and supporters of the war in Iraq are at a loss. Even after all that's occurred, they continue to throw out vagaries about winning a victory in Iraq, and spreading democracy knowing that they're full of it. Exit strategy? They're still building those 14 American military bases in Iraq.

Speculation persists about the elections being postponed due to the growing violence in Iraq. However, the desperation of the Bush Administration for good news out of Iraq means their likelihood may have actually increased in recent days. From the BBC article:

"While the world's attention has been on the disaster in Asia, the situation in Iraq has deteriorated so much that the insurgency has developed into near-open warfare.

The head of Iraq's intelligence service Gen Muhammad Shahwani now puts the number of insurgents at 200,000, of which 40,000 are said to be the hard core and the rest active supporters.

These figures do not represent an insurgency. They represent a war."