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Richard Cheney: “The level of activity that we see today, from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in…”

On the recordMay 30, 2006
The level of activity that we see today, from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the -- in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.

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Richard B. Cheney expresses optimism about the decline of insurgency activity in Iraq.

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