"Last throes" Cheney is on an "unannounced" visit to Baghdad

The Dick is in Baghdad. "Unannounced" visit, apparently they've stopped calling these jaunts "surprises":

Cheney's unannounced visit, part of a Middle East tour, may signal growing U.S. impatience at Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's failure to push through power-sharing agreements as American military commanders build up troops to secure Baghdad.

"There is a lot going on. It's an important time. There is a lot to talk about," Cheney said before meeting with General David Petraeus, commander of U.S. troops in Iraq.

Guess Dick won't be strolling around Baghdad being greeted as a liberator, because that's what he said would happen back in March of 2003. And, in September of 2003, he said most Iraqis were greeting our soldiers as liberators:

MR. RUSSERT: We have not been greeted as liberated.

VICE PRES. CHENEY: Well, I think we have by most Iraqis. I think the majority of Iraqis are thankful for the fact that the United States is there, that we came and we took down the Saddam Hussein government. And I think if you go in vast areas of the country, the Shia in the south, which are about 60 percent of the population, 20-plus percent in the north, in the Kurdish areas, and in some of the Sunni areas, you’ll find that, for the most part, a majority of Iraqis support what we did.

Yeah, sure, Dick. Liar.

Two years ago, Dick was predicting an end to the insurgency. He's been wrong -- or lied -- about everything related to Iraq. Everything:

"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."

If what Dick said about Iraq was true, he'd be parading through downtown Baghdad instead of sneaking in to the country on yet another unannounced visit. Every time one of our leaders skulks in to that country, it's another admission of their failure.