CNN.com - Iraq insurgency in 'last throes,' Cheney says - May 31, 2005

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/30/cheney.iraq/

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."

[BlueStater]

1. Good but look at this

"People want leadership that unites, not divides. You can't bash people and lead," Bush said. His style is to set out his position in a soothing manner then lambast what he regards as the failed liberal culture of his own generation.

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/11/03/election/governors/texas/

It'd be funny if it wasn't so sad

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated" - Mark Twain

As are the reports of the "failed insurgency", it's "last throes", and the death of Al-queda after losing it's limitless #2 men.