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Originally Posted by roachboy
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LOL...remember Cheney, 2 years ago, this month?
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CNN.com - Iraq insurgency in 'last throes,' Cheney says - May 31, 2005
In a wide-ranging interview Monday on CNN's "Larry King Live," Cheney cited the ...<h3> I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency." ...</h3>
www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/30/cheney.iraq/
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...and now???
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http://www.star-telegram.com/279/story/96940.html
Posted on Thu, May. 10, 2007
Cheney pushes for Iraqi progress
By TOM RAUM
The Associated Press
BAGHDAD -- Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday that "we've got a long way to go" in reducing violence in Iraq in a trip punctuated by an explosion that shook windows at the U.S. Embassy, where Cheney was visiting.
The embassy earlier issued a strict new order telling all employees to wear flak vests and helmets while in unprotected buildings or whenever they are outside the embassy complex.
The order, prompted by a sharp increase in mortar attacks on the Green Zone in central Baghdad, has created a siege mentality among U.S. staff inside the Green Zone since a recent suicide attack on parliament. <b>It has also led to new fears about long-term safety in the place where the U.S. government is building a massive and expensive new embassy.
The security deterioration also holds implications for the Iraqi government, which uses the Green Zone as a haven for key meetings crucial to its ability to govern.</b>
Cheney urged Iraq's parliament to abandon plans for a two-month summer vacation while U.S. forces are fighting. With important issues pending, including how to share Iraq's oil wealth, "any undue delay would be difficult to explain," he said.
Cheney met with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Iraqi political and military leaders.
"I emphasized the importance of making progress on the issues before us, not only the security issues but also on the political issues that are pending before the Iraqi government," Cheney said.
Baghdad was Cheney's first stop on a weeklong trip to the Middle East to seek support from moderate Arab leaders for help in bringing stability to Iraq....
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...yeah, it sounds eeirly reminiscent of America's loss in Vietnam, but, not to worry...a "feel good" shill like Saint Reagan will come along in the next few years to soothe the volk who are still in denial about what happend to the US in Vietnam, that "Iraq was a noble war" !