Woodward: Insurgency in Iraq to worsen next year!

Woodward is hawking a new book detailing the Bush admin's denial of just how bad Iraq is becoming.

Among the points is the prediction that the insurgency is going to get worse next year.

According to Woodward, insurgent attacks against coalition troops occur, on average, every 15 minutes, a shocking fact the administration has kept secret. "It’s getting to the point now where there are eight-, nine-hundred attacks a week. That's more than 100 a day. That is four an hour attacking our forces," says Woodward.

The situation is getting much worse, says Woodward, despite what the White House and the Pentagon are saying in public. "The truth is that the assessment by intelligence experts is that next year, 2007, is going to get worse and, in public, you have the president and you have the Pentagon [saying], 'Oh, no, things are going to get better,'" he tells Wallace. "Now there’s public, and then there’s private. But what did they do with the private? They stamp it secret. No one is supposed to know," says Woodward.

Being a journalist, I have utter respect for Woodward. But he, to me, is illustrating the growing rift between the military and the administration...

I look forward to the book....

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