08/02/07: "Dick" Cheney admits he was wrong about insurgency being in "last throes"

Cheney admits was wrong about "last throes" in Iraq

Tue Jul 31, 2007

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney acknowledged on Tuesday he was wrong in 2005 when he insisted the insurgency in Iraq was in its "last throes."

It was Cheney's most direct public admission of how badly the administration had underestimated the strength of America's enemies in the increasingly unpopular war in Iraq.

"I thought there were a series of these milestones that would in fact undermine the insurgency and make it less than it was at that point. That clearly didn't happen. I think the insurgency turned out to be more robust."

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"Dick" tells the truth, for once? I'm amazed.

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