Cheney thinks we're going to be in Iraq for 13 years?

"I'd remind you how long it took us. From the time we wrote our Declaration of Independence until we had a constitution in place and a democratically elected government that we could live with was 13 years, 1776 to 1789. So we shouldn't be surprised if there are bumps along the way. There will be." - Dick Cheney, LA Times

So how fucking long are we going to be there, 13 years? So, 13,000 American deaths is what we're talking?