As resistance attacks increase in Iraq, the US appointed government continues its struggle to organize the planned election on January 30. In recent weeks, several senior Iraqi officials have indicated the vote may not happen. But the unelected Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said Wednesday he is committed to holding the elections on time. Meanwhile, President Bush tried to quash any momentum toward delaying the election by calling Iraq’s interim president, Ghazi al-Yawar, who had expressed his own misgivings about the elections on Tuesday, characterizing the decision to hold them on time as a “tough call.” Allawi made his comments yesterday inside the heavily fortified Green Zone. He spoke two days after what some officials have described as an anguished phone call with President Bush, in which the prime minister expressed worries that the Iraqi resistance was undermining the likelihood of a peaceful and legitimate vote. Analysts say the fact that Bush felt the need to discuss the matter with Iraq’s leaders twice within 48 hours suggested a new level of concern in the White House that the movement for delay within the Iraqi cabinet must be cut off. The U.S. military announced Wednesday that more than 35,000 American troops will be deployed on the streets of Baghdad on January 30, the date of the elections. We”ll have more on this later in the program.