“In an appearance on Larry King Live on May 31, 2005…[Vice President Dick] Cheney was asked how long Americans would be fighting in Iraq. ‘The level of activity that we see today, from a military standpoint, I think will clearly decline,’ he said. ‘I think they’re in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.’ ”
– Stephen F. Hayes, Cheney, Pages 475-476