More than 40 people were killed across Iraq Friday, including 15 who died when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a Shiite mosque in Baghdad despite a security crackdown in the capital, police said...read on

via mcjoan Bush, in his Saturday radio address:

"I traveled to Baghdad to personally show our nation's commitment to a free Iraq, because it is vital for the Iraqi people to know with certainty that America will not abandon them after we have come this far," Bush said in the radio address.