Cheney says (May 30) that the Iraq insurgency is in its "last throes".
Rumsfeld says (June 26) that insurgencies tend to continue for 2, 4, 10, 12 years.

June 2005 was the deadliest month in Iraq since the invasion.

The Happy News

"More than 1,000 members of the Iraqi security services had died since the transfer of sovereignty one year ago, * the US military said without giving an exact figure.

"At least 1,743 members of the US military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,341 died as a result of hostile action. Of those, 75 were killed in June, one of the deadlier months."

* Can you imagine the bravery it takes for an Iraqi to make himself a target? At what point will it get safer?