Cheney Says Tonight "Iraq Will Be a Success Story Eventually... Meanwhile
A leading general says the insurgency is as strong now as before the elections and new terrorists are cropping up all the freaking time:
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Iraqi insurgency is as active as six months ago and more foreign fighters are flowing in all the time, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East said Thursday, despite Vice President Dick Cheney's insistence that the insurgency was ``in its last throes.''What drugs is Cheney taking?'Gen. John Abizaid, testifying at a contentious Senate hearing alongside Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, gave his view of the war in response to lawmakers who expressed concern about progress in Iraq and support at home.
``People are beginning to question, and I don't think it's a blip on the radar screen,'' said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
Added Joe Lieberman, D-Conn.: ``I fear that American public opinion is tipping away from this effort.'
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