As part of newly launched public relations campaign to increase support for U.S. policy in Iraq, President Bush, spoke in New Hampshire yesterday to urge Americans to be more upbeat about Iraq where he said things were going “a lot better than you probably think.”

The Washington Post reports Bush’s comments came on the deadliest day in Iraq in more than a month. A Spanish diplomat was assassinated. Eight Iraqis died in a suicide car bombing at a Baghdad police station. And three U.S. troops were killed in ambushes.