3rd anniversary for "Mission Accomplished", 1st for "last Throes"

[splat@14]

CNN LARRY KING LIVE

Interview With Dick Cheney, Lynne Cheney

Aired May 30, 2005 - 21:00 ET



KING: To be removed. It's not going to be -- it's not going to be a 10-year event?

D. CHENEY: No. I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time. But I think 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. We've had reporting in recent days, Larry, about Zarqawi, who's sort of the lead terrorist, outside terrorist, al Qaeda, head of al Qaeda for Iraq, may well have been seriously injured. We don't know. We can't confirm that. We've had reporting to that effect.



http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0505/30/lkl.01.html

[redqueen]

1. these GOPranos lie by default

why any idiots persist in believing their bullshit is beyond me

[cascadiance]

2. And sixth anniversary for "I'm a Uniter, not a divider!"

Everything about this admin is crap, PURE crap! We just have to expect it!

[skipos]

4. I gotta disagree with you there. He IS uniting America...

against him.

[cascadiance]

5. Point taken!

But he still has a false idea of what is really going on there too. Though I guess from a campaign speech given in May of 1999, it really is the 7th anniversary of this statement instead of the 6th...

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. According to them they didn't really mean it.

It was all your misunderstanding or should I say, your "misinterpretation", like "Bring it on"

[bridgit]

6. i think cheney was referring to a democratic america herself...

[Cocoa]

7. last throes + one year

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/30/AR2006053001226.html

BAGHDAD, May 30 -- A series of car bombings and other attacks killed more than 50 Iraqis and one U.S. soldier on Tuesday, evidence of a new intensity in the violence in Iraq and underlining the security problems facing the country's 10-day-old government.

In an indicator of rising violence, more "multiple-fatality" bombings -- involving at least three deaths -- occurred this month than in any other since the war began in 2003, according to the Brookings Institution, which issues a twice-weekly report of security and reconstruction statistics. The report this week noted 44 such bombings as of May 25; since then, that number has risen above 50. The next-worst month was September 2005, with 46.

U.S. commanders have warned for weeks that the country's Sunni Arab insurgent movement, which they say is led by the group al-Qaeda in Iraq, would unleash an all-out offensive to weaken the new government's authority and stoke hatred between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.

Statistics indicate that violence has been escalating steadily for months, particularly since the bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra north of Baghdad on Feb. 22 kicked off a wave of sectarian killing. According to Brookings, there were 21 multiple-fatality bombings in December, when national elections were held for the new government. In January, there were 30; in February, 39; in March, 37, and in April, 40.

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