Suicide Bomber Kills 13 Iraqi Soldiers

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On June 20, 2005, almost two years ago vice-"president" Deadeye Dick Cheney said

"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."

Consider this quote from a May 24, 2007, Washington Post article titled Morgue Data Show Increase in Sectarian Killings in Iraq

Lt. Gen. Aboud Qanbar, the Iraqi commander overseeing the security plan, acknowledged in an interview that the number of unidentified corpses is rising and said there has been a spike in sectarian assaults by Shiite militias, especially elements of the Mahdi Army, the militia of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

"We are aware of this happening, yes," Qanbar said Tuesday, seated in his office inside one of the palaces of the late ousted president Saddam Hussein. "We have noticed that those gangs are again attacking people."

And what about this statement from the yahoo story linked above?

At least 766 Iraqi security personnel have been killed since a U.S.-Iraqi security crackdown began on Feb 14. During the same length of time immediately preceding Feb. 14, at least 593 Iraqi security personnel were killed, according to figures compiled by The Associated Press. The actual number in both cases is likely higher as many killings go unreported or uncounted.

Perhaps the first action that President Al Gore should take upon reciting his oath of office on January 20, 2009, is to appoint Bush and Cheney to be his personal envoy's to Iraq. They would be stationed near Baghdad International Airport and it would be their responsibilty to work with the various sectarian groups that will still be in their last throes 591 days from today, to bring peace to the region. Both Bush and Cheney would have no authority to strike oil deals with the Iraqi government or could they negotiate contracts on behalf of Haliburton. Instead they would be required to fix the collosal clusterfuck they have created and no annual leave or sick leave would be approved for either of them until the insurgency was in its last throes, "if you will."