Chenney sees "Noose Tightening" on Iraq Insurgency

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Let's see, now...

First, they would greet us with open arms and flowers.

Then it was "Mission Accomplished"


Next, things would settle down as soon as a provisional government was established.

Then we would get a handle once we broke the back of the resistance in Fallujah.

After that proved wrong, we figured once we handed over authority to the Provisional Government it would be smooth sailing.

Okay, sure, but when elections hppen my friend, then we'll see some progress.

Allright, fine, but when there's a parliament in place? Then for sure.


Okay. We've been a hundred percent wrong on all those fronts and actually the insurgency gets stromnger and more organized all the time. But hey, NOW we've got it all figured out.




WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The insurgency in Iraq is "in the last throes," Vice President Dick Cheney says, and he predicts that the fighting will end before the Bush administration leaves office.

In a wide-ranging interview Monday on CNN's "Larry King Live," Cheney cited the recent push by Iraqi forces to crack down on insurgent activity in Baghdad and reports that the most-wanted terrorist leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, had been wounded.

The vice president said he expected the war would end during President Bush's second term, which ends in 2009.

"I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time," Cheney said. "The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency."


'Cause Zarkawi see, he's the whole problem. Saddam? We were wrong there, we thought he was the whole problem, but apparently not. Sarkawi though, we got him, so it's all over. Well, we don't have him, he's wounded. We think. That's the same thing, right? And thank God, becuase without him, the insurgency is basically over. This time for sure. Even though we've been wrong every other time.