Fighting continued to rage through several other Iraqi cities over the weekend including Bacuba where US forces killed 47 Iraqis.

President Bush reiterated Sunday that the US still plans to hand over power on June 30 but it remains unclear who power would be handed to.

When asked on Sunday what kind of Iraqi government would take over in July, the head of the US occupation Paul Bremer said: “That’s a good question.”

The Los Angeles Times reports the continuing violence has brought to a virtual halt U.S. reconstruction efforts and work toward the planned June 30 transition to Iraqi sovereignty.

President Bush described the resistance as “a few people trying to stop progress toward democracy.”

But nearly all evidence coming out of Iraq indicates much of the population, even the US-trained Iraqi army, have turned against the occupying forces.

The Washington Post reports an entire battalion of the US-trained Iraqi army refused orders to fight in Fallujah against the Iraqi resistance. One soldier told reporters, 'We didn't sign up to fight Iraqis.” Some members of the army reportedly quit to join the resistance.

Britain’s Foreign Minister Jack Straw admitted to the BBC that the resistance is widespread. Straw said, “The lid of the pressure cooker has come off… It is plainly the fact today that there are larger numbers of people, and they are people on the ground, Iraqis, not foreign fighters, who are engaged in this insurgency.”

A new Newsweek poll has found 64 percent of Americans are concerned Iraq will turn into another Vietnam.

Overall at least 60 U.S. troops have died over the past week including 19 since Friday. Two died yesterday when their Apache helicopter was shot down near the Baghdad airport. Over 750 coalition troops have now died since the US invasion, about 665 from the U.S. and 100 from other members of the coalition including nearly 60 from Britain.