And now a fourth year

"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." - Dick Cheney 6/20/2005

IED Fatalities in June, 2005 = 35

"So what we've seen is a serious effort by them to foment civil war, but I don't think they've been successful," Cheney said, adding that he believes the insurgents have "reached a stage of desperation." - Dick Cheney 3/19/2005

IED Fatalities in February, 2006 = 38