Political Jackass

Dick Cheney – “The insurgency in Iraq is in its last throes.”

Donald Rumsfeld – “The insurgency could go on for any number of years.”

And also…

Donald Rumsfeld – Meetings between U.S. representatives and insurgents “go on all the time.”

Army General George Casey – “Not yet,” on a question of whether U.S. forces had met with “known leaders of the insurgency.”