Cheney was remarking on the terrorists failure to stop a political process that has been ongoing and has reached every deadline so far. If you listen to his interview his last throes comments came within that context.
And context is NOT a friend to the MSM.
Nor is information on the ground, ie, the presses refusal to show pressers from Iraq, and the Pent, on any subject, nor did they show any actual info from the Generals during their hearings.
Simple, give the people nothing, then take a poll.
Cheney was remarking on the terrorists failure to stop a political process that has been ongoing and has reached every deadline so far. If you listen to his interview his last throes comments came within that context. I did not hear any such interview, so I must leave that intpretation to the transcript. But here is a news account which makes it clear that Cheney was speaking in military terms (emphasis suplied):
Cheney: Iraqi Insurgents Gone By 2009
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney says the Iraqi insurgency will be put down and fizzle out before the end of President George Bush's second term in 2009.
"I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time," Cheney said in an interview Monday night. "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."