Send him the Butcher's Bill

Cheney, May 31, 2005:

"I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time," Cheney said. "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."

Number of American Soldiers Killed since May 31, 2005: 1,106

Cheney, Yesterday:

If you look at the general overall situation, they’re doing remarkably well.

This morning:

The U.S. military reported Wednesday that nine American troops had been killed in bombings and combat

This, of course, doesn't include the exponentially exploding number of Iraqi deaths.