Cheney says insurgency is 'in the last throes'

[quaoar]

Yeah, and we know exactly where those WMDs are too. Time to send Cheney in for a drug test.

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

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."

[formercia]

1. The prick is hallucinating.

LOL!

[Skittles]

11. nope - he is just telling his deluded followers what they want to hear

don't you understand? The naysayers are all part of the "liberal media" conspiracy

[izzie]

2. If you keep saying it you may be right some time.

Any how that side sure wish to believe any thing that is said by their royal ones. My God but it must be an ego high to have these people in Churches. My kids would never do as I wished or I as my father and mother wished. I am not a born Republican for sure.

[ET Awful]

3. Yet more spew from Dick.

As I said yesterday. . . last year "we turned a corner" and "broke the back of the insurgency" . . . or this a different insurgency? Is this the dead-ender insurgency made up of Saddam loyalists? Or is this the other insurgency?

Go Cheney yourself Dick.

[BlueEyedSon]

4. Yeah, the world is running out of nutty Saudis..... NOT!

[MrModerate]

5. The "last throes" are supposed to go on for another 3+ years?

That's some pretty serious throes. How many people get blown to bits or shot out of the sky during these throes?

And does anyone know if there is a singular version of "throes" (like "throe," I guess), which would be like a small twitch and then you're dead? (AKA the schiavo maneuver).

[Telly Savalas]

8. On a geological scale, that's the blink of an eye.

This must be what Cheney means.

[jimshoes]

6. Yes it must be

with its broken back and all.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Yeah, and the next stage is the full-blown civil war!!

[DinahMoeHum]

9. Yeah, yeah, Dickhead, and there's "light at the end of the tunnel"

etc.

:evilfrown:

[realFedUp]

10. would be if they nuked the area....

It never was a mystery who really had the
WMD.