When did VP say "The insurgency is in it's last throes"?

[drmom]

I'm trying to remember...seems like months ago. I didn't realize last throes could last so long.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. Google search terms 'cheney last throes' easy as pie

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

Iraq insurgency in 'last throes,' Cheney says

Monday, June 20, 2005; Posted: 12:19 p.m. EDT (16:19 GMT)


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."

[LibraLiz1973]

3. I file that comment in the same area as "MIssion Accomplished"

Those assholes are trying to sell quarters for a dollar.

[alcuno]

2. Around Memorial Day.

It all depends upon what the word "throes" means. I love when they say this stuff; it makes them look insane or stupid or both.

[mmonk]

4. Which time?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

5. Yeah I thought Rice a Roni used this same phrase too sometime recently.